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Tony Blake: My view is either eliminating it from the subtext or add that something clarifying to the top. 216 217 Michael Harvey: I can’t eliminate adult daycare, childcare. I can’t eliminate that. So is there then a recommendation requesting 218 the Planning Board to add the term child/adult care and educational facilities to the use category definition? 219 220 MOTION by Kim Piracci to add the language suggested. Seconded by Lydia Wegman. 221 VOTE: 4 – 3 OPPOSED (ALEXANDER GREGORY, ANDREA ROHRBACHER, BUDDY HARTLEY) 222 223 Inaudible 224 225 Michael Harvey continued reviewing abstract. 226 227 Tony Blake: What was the one example? Was that Del Centro? 228 229 Michael Harvey: Well I don’t even think Del Centro would be a good example. It was supposed to be this… It was supposed to 230 be a cooperative where there would be shared access to materials, which again didn’t make any sense to me. It’s a school or 231 it’s not a school. The fact that you’re not going to allow schools to share materials I think gets a little bit into the minutia of 232 you’re telling a school they can’t share a book. So you don’t need to have some arbitrary land use category for that purpose. 233 234 Tony Blake: Yeah, it seems like a clumsy way to try to get something… 235 236 Michael Harvey: Yeah. And the problem is I don’t know what it was originally trying to get in the first place. There was an 237 intention. A long time ago. I don’t know what that intention is anymore. 238 239 Randy Marshall: If you had non profit groups that were trying to help non reading adults learn how to read literacy… would that 240 be under the definition of non profit education inaudible? 241 242 Michael Harvey: Not under the current definition. I would actually call that a school. Where we have school, exam prep, 243 tutoring, language, driving. I would actually say it’d fall under that category versus a non-profit education cooperative. Let me 244 just interject something real quick, some of the older Board members will know this: the County’s Attorney’s office has been 245 incredibly anxious to eliminate references to profit and non-profit. You cannot base and shouldn’t be basing land use decisions 246 on the for profit or non for profit status of an organization or an operation. It either is permitted because of its activity or not. It 247 shouldn’t be permitted because it’s non-profit and then prohibited because it’s profit. So we are eliminating as best we can 248 land use decisions based on ownership or based on tax status. 249 250 Randy Marshall: So school could be profit or non-profit? 251 252 Michael Harvey: Private or public, yes sir. Yeah, we do not distinguish, currently. In fact we’ve added language or are 253 recommending language be added to make sure that distinction, that it’s either public or private. We don’t discriminate. 254 255 Randy Marshall: So anywhere you teach is considered a school. 256 257 Michael Harvey: Anywhere you teach where you are offering a curriculum based on the State of North Carolina standards 258 curriculum where you can achieve a diploma is listed as a school; elementary, middle, and secondary public or private. A 259 school where you’re doing exam prep, where you’re doing tutoring, where you’re teaching language, or driving is a school that 260 falls into that category and will be allowed in several districts. 261 262 Randy Marshall: What about my example of adult literacy, which is not leading toward a diploma, it’s trying to help somebody 263 who’s got to be 35 and can’t read? 264 265 Michael Harvey: Right, from my stand point that would fall into either school, the school; exam prep, tutoring, language, driving 266 example, or it could even fall into the school; vocational, business, community, trade, junior, or technical. Depending on the 267 aspect of the teaching it could fall into either one. 268 269 9