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7 320 Paul Guthrie: So the original house does not have to related to the individual at all? 321 322 Ashley Moncado: No, that’s been removed. 323 324 Paul Guthrie: Okay. So, why are we defining a family as five? 325 326 Ashley Moncado: Because we have other issues regarding how many people are living within one single family 327 home, or a unit. Which this, the family definition is being changed because that was an issue that was brought by the 328 commissioners. They didn’t like that it was limited to three, they wanted to see it increased. So, to me, it sounds like 329 these are two different things. So, the family definition, we’re addressing that in conjunction with this just because it’s 330 something that’s been discussed previously that we just needed to address. We wanted to address it this time as part 331 of this amendment package. But, there’s no family relationship requirement related to the temporary custodial care 332 units anymore. 333 334 Lydia Wegman: So maybe Paul is raising a good point as far as the family that should be considered independently, 335 from the temporary custodial unit because it is true that now the term family doesn’t mean blood, marriage or 336 adoption. People do choose to live together. 337 338 Ashley Moncado: There’s a possibility you could have a lot of people living in a house without having some sort of 339 standard and structures to it. I understand that there’s a lot of people that have families that they have children, 340 they’re not married or they’re blended families. But, if you’re looking at a family of that situation, I mean you could 341 look at potentially having twenty people living in a house. And we have no way that you have to put some sort of limit 342 on it to avoid that situation because then you could be looking at environmental health concerns where they have 343 twenty people living in a house with four bedrooms. 344 345 Paul Guthrie: And you have adequate definitions in other parts of planning laws and regulations that limits the 346 occupancy of a house? 347 348 Ashley Moncade: Well our family definition is also reflective of the North Carolina State Building Code. Which the five 349 is derived directly from. There’s our standard but there’s another state standard that they have to adhere by. 350 351 Patricia Roberts: Well perhaps if they’re under 18 they don’t count. 352 353 Ashley Moncade: We can’t do that. The state building code doesn’t look at age. 354 355 Tony Blake: Chapel Hill is even more restrictive than this to reduce the number of students and people parking on the 356 lawn and all that stuff. That was directly to address… 357 358 Patricia Roberts: It’s four, right? 359 360 Tony Blake: Yeah, it’s one less. 361 362 Lisa Stuckey: If the parents were not married, it would still be allowed? 363 364 Craig Benedict: Yes, as it’s unrelated by blood. 365 366 Maxecine Mitchell: My understanding of it is, definitely people who are unrelated. So you can have a bunch of people 367 sharing a house less than six people and one of them wants to bring their parents on the property and put this 368 portable unit up, my question would be then that wouldn’t be allowed because you have too many unrelated people 369 there. Am I understanding that right? 370 371 11 11