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Approved 9/4/13 4 Tony Blake: I agree with Pete on the square footage. I think 500 feet is restrictive. The number of employees is if 163 you have three, you are sort of allowing the seasonal businesses to take advantage of that. As far as deliveries, I 164 think you need to be able to handle the truck size. The accessory structure is the one place I see as the difference 165 between the rural buffer and zoning, etc. You could technically say a farm is a home business. You could word 166 that so that the 1,000 foot square limit was just inside certain zones. 167 168 Buddy Hartley: The square footage, I don’t see why Orange County has 500 and Chapel Hill has 750. Maybe we 169 need to have a difference between a rural and the inside where you a larger development site. If it is in a 170 development you could have problems with the home owner’s association. 171 172 Craig Benedict: This would be no means preempt a home owner’s association if the HOA has restrictions. 173 174 Pete Hallenbeck: If you have more than 1,000 square feet of product things are going pretty well. That may be 175 where the limit of visitors can be used. 176 177 Craig Benedict: We understand these entrepreneurs starting a small business in their house and we have been 178 complaining we don’t have places for the small business to move to. We hope they grow out of this into the 2,000 179 square foot strip center, etc. 180 181 Andrea Rohrbacher: The challenges that I faced in Chapel Hill in a residential neighborhood was a woman that ran 182 mediation classes. Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night, there were 10 cars lined up on the street. 183 That became burdensome. 184 185 Pete Hallenbeck: That speaks to the number of visitors and onsite parking. 186 187 Tony Blake: It also speaks to hours of business. 188 189 Stephanie O’Rourke: How would you differentiate if they were having a Wednesday night ladies night? 190 191 Andrea Rohrbacher: I think it was because this was three nights a week. In the Chapel Hill ordinance, some way 192 that you can have an art studio with power, running water but there is something in there that was specifically 193 targeting student housing that it wasn’t a livable structure. They wanted to avoid someone building a 750 foot 194 structure to rent to a couple of students. 195 196 Michael Harvey: If you apply for home occupation, there are standards we use to see if efficiency apartment 197 applies. 198 199 Andrea Rohrbacher: What do we allow as identification if it was a consulting type business. 200 201 Pete Hallenbeck: If you’re a consultant, you don’t need a sign. Review the signage. 202 203 Andrea Rohrbacher: What about daycares? 204 205 Michael Harvey: Daycares is not a home occupation, it is a separate permitting process. 206 207 Stephanie O’Rourke: Wouldn’t the homeowners association or the restrictive covenants be over that? 208 209 Craig Benedict: Also the parking code. 210 211 Andrea Rohrbacher: I would not want to go over three employees. 212 213 Tony Blake: Three includes the resident as well? 214 215 Michael Harvey: You can’t have more than two employees that don’t live at the residence. 216