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6 270 Patrick Mallett: No. I did get a phone call and email from an operator yesterday who owns 65 mobile home parks 271 throughout the southeast of which they own several in Orange County. They said this is exactly the trend. We have a 272 good number of our home parks that have been converted to have some sort of hybrid so that we can meet the 273 market demands. 274 275 Lydia Wegman: Was he comfortable with what you were doing? 276 277 Patrick Mallett: Yes. I don’t think I’ve had any negative responses. Either from residents that are interested to tenants 278 to mobile home park owners. 279 280 Patrick Mallett continued presentation. 281 282 Alan Clapp: On the septic end the only thing that’s different is the minimum size for a mobile home inaudible. The 283 park model and the RV type have a lower flow rate in the North Carolina sewage inaudible so it would be less flow to 284 the system. Then we’re going to get the question of, “Can we do 2 where we have 1?” and the answer’s going to be 285 no because they still have to meet the 5,000. 286 287 Michael Harvey: We only allow 1 unit per 5,000 square feet. 288 289 Patrick Mallett: And, peppered throughout the 30 some odd pages of the text change, it’s 1 space, 1 unit. No 290 efficiencies. It doesn’t matter how big it is or how small it is. And we did take the comments from the ORC about the 291 shed’s and then lowering the minimum cap from 10-acres to 5-acres for your minimum track size. 292 293 Lydia Wegman: Michael, is there anything you wanted to add? 294 295 Michael Rettie: The only thing we regulate with RV’s is the electric pedestal. It’s the only jurisdiction we have 296 anything to do with. 297 298 299 Patrick Mallett: So part of that would be the site plan approval and the designation of the space and then some sort of 300 affidavit that says it’s built to the park model standard. 301 302 Lydia Wegman: But no HUD certification? 303 304 Michael Rettie: Not for a RV. 305 306 Alan Clapp: Yes. 307 308 Paul Guthrie: How many? 309 310 Alan Clapp: I don’t know because those are the ones that we don’t go to. 311 312 Paul Guthrie: So what we’re talking about here would be totally controlled by State and Federal Law… That could 313 become a problem. So I just plant that seed. 314 315 Michael Harvey: Understood. But with all due respect if we did nothing it would still be a problem. If we never came 316 up with this amendment we’re still looking at the problem. 317 318 Paul Guthrie: Well I think there’s a solution outside of that. If a surrounding or neighboring piece of property felt that it 319 was being harmed by those discharges then there could be private action. 320 321 Michael Harvey: They can be now, in fact, there has been. In the 12 years I’ve been here there’s been 1 park that 322 seems to get… 323 11