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1 <br />Ashley Moncado: Yes 2 <br /> 3 <br />Paul Guthrie: And a NC resident on top of that? 4 <br /> 5 <br />Pete Hallenbeck: That’s where your submittal requirements came from the state law? 6 <br /> 7 <br />Ashley Moncado: Yes, all of this is the state law. We cannot change it if it’s not identical it’s very similar. 8 <br /> 9 <br />Paul Guthrie: The owner of the property has to be a NC resident and the recipient of the housing has to be a NC 10 <br />resident. 11 <br /> 12 <br />Ashley Moncado: Yes 13 <br /> 14 <br />Paul Guthrie: The lawyers are going to have a field day with this one. 15 <br /> 16 <br />Pete Hallenbeck: And it’s going to cost you about $100,000. 17 <br /> 18 <br />Craig Benedict: Whey you get a mandate from the state and you start trying to tweak it it’s a slippery slope. So we can 19 <br />resolve some of the options about having people not related by blood living in these accessory structures. I would 20 <br />suggest let’s get this statue, preemption of a lot of our other rules, put in and address the other issues about being more 21 <br />flexible and not having the relationship stuff addressed by other portions of the code. Right now how many people do 22 <br />we allow unrelated by blood in the house? 23 <br /> 24 <br />Ashley Moncado: 3 25 <br /> 26 <br />Craig Benedict: Some places allow more than that so I mean there could be a case where you want to go up to 4 or 5 27 <br />so we would be suggesting other amendments to the code to allow housing opportunities that’s the new trend. I think 28 <br />we could make an amendment to this and the state says are you adhering to us and we say yes and made it even 29 <br />better and they are like Orange County did something again to our minimums. That’s just an idea I think we can 30 <br />address other sections of the code and since the state is asking for this almost verbatim it would be better to let this fly. 31 <br /> 32 <br />Pete Hallenbeck: I don’t want to take a bad idea and say we combed it’s hair and put lipstick on it and now it’s good. 33 <br /> 34 <br />Lydia Wegman: Craig, when you say address it in the code you would have to develop new amendments to the code 35 <br /> 36 <br />Craig Benedict: Yes 37 <br /> 38 <br />Lydia Wegman: Added to the long list already 39 <br /> 40 <br />Lisa Stuckey: You could do a completely identical parallel amendment to the code and just change the things we like. 41 <br />We could have 2 of them sitting there. 42 <br /> 43 <br />Pete Hallenbeck: I’ll remind everybody that we have this dinner with the commissioners every year and that’s an 44 <br />opportunity to say here are areas that we think would be interesting to look at this might be a very good thing to look at 45 <br />and now you’re going to go through the right process instead of tweaking it and if this goes away, we could still have 46 <br />our solution. 47 <br /> 48 <br />22