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Approved 12/2/15 <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />Ashley Moncado: The session law is a little vague regarding that. <br /> <br />Andrea Rohrbacher: A person from another state comes to get care here needs to have a North Carolina license <br />provider for prescriptions. How is this going to cover that situation? <br /> <br />Perdita Holtz: That’s not something we would enforce through land use laws. <br /> <br />Peter Hallenbeck: It sounds to me like there are two problems. One is the decision to bring someone in and once <br />they get here they are going to find local medical help. I’m noticing in this there is really no protection for somebody <br />using it as a business and there is also no protection for elderly abuse. <br /> <br />Ashley Moncado: Those were also concerns of ours. To be honest you could have the relationship requirement and <br />then you could have a child abusing a parent. <br /> <br />Peter Hallenbeck: One would hope with these amendments there might be some accompanying ordinances that <br />would cover it. <br /> <br />Ashley Moncado: I will be following up with the Department of Aging to see if they came across anything. <br /> <br />Craig Benedict: Any application we get for this, we could share that with the Health Department, Aging Department, <br />and Social Services. They may want to monitor something. <br /> <br />Peter Hallenbeck: I think you’re right on the money with working the Department of Aging. With ordinances they can <br />figure out if there is some way to run a background check on them. <br /> <br />Andrea Rohrbacher: If the area where the structure was to be located happened to be a subdivision that had <br />covenants what happens to the covenants? <br /> <br />Ashley Moncado: They have to meet the covenants’ restrictions. <br /> <br />Peter Hallenbeck: It sounds like we are taking it a little bit further in saying instead of just learning how to live with <br />what the State has mandated, let’s see if we can’t solve a bigger problem. <br /> <br />Paul Guthrie: I think we do what we can do under basically what is our core jurisdiction. Let’s not try to solve the total <br />legal implications. That’s not the role of the Planning Board. Other agencies may need to be brought in but that is not <br />our role and I think we could get in a quagmire if we try to regulate issues we have little to know knowledge of. <br /> <br />Peter Hallenbeck: I fully agree with that. I think we have done our part as we reviewed the land use and I think we <br />have commented correctly with regard to how critical it is for other agencies to be involved in the process to prevent <br />abuse. <br /> <br />Andrea Rohrbacher: Is the Health Department involved at all? <br /> <br />Ashley Moncado: This still needs to go to peer review. Tonight was just to see what option you wanted to go with and <br />then we will send it back out to our county attorneys. <br /> <br />Peter Hallenbeck: Well the recommendation is simply that we review and comment and I think we’ve done that. <br />People seem to like option B with all the cautions required. <br />****** <br /> 58