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Approved 10/2/13 3 109 Ashley Moncado: Yes. This was more for onsite. As long as you don’t exceed four all at once, you could operate 110 as home occupation. 111 112 Paul Guthrie: How do you define visitor? If you have 10 students, that may wipe out some occupations. We 113 should be knowledgeable about these types of limitations. 114 115 Pete Hallenbeck: Let’s go around the room for comments. 116 117 Paul Guthrie: I only wanted to indicate that we do have a home business, an artist, and we have almost no visitors. 118 Some of the definitions, visitors, deliveries, are so imprecise. Do delivery trucks count toward that number? 119 120 Pete Hallenbeck: Michael Harvey would be able to look at those to check them. 121 122 Andrea Rohrbacher: My first concern in students per day. The way this is written if that I had a summer craft 123 session with a morning session of 10 students and an afternoon session with 10 students that would not be 124 allowed. My second question is about the number of events per year. If I had a seasonal business, I bake wedding 125 cakes, I would like to have 2 events in the spring and one in the fall or open houses per year and then my kitchen is 126 in my home and it meets all the standards for me to do the wedding cakes and I also do my home cooking, where 127 does that land in this? 128 129 Herman Staats: Keep these issues in mind when we have additional public meetings related to this so we can 130 modify these to better accommodate everyone. 131 132 James Lea: Looking at the revised standards dealing with minor and major home occupations sounds great with a 133 little tweaking until you get to the new standards and pretty much it says all home occupations that exceed 10% or 134 more. If you have any type of business, you will exceed the 10% of the floor area if you have a reception area. 135 Then we get into Section 419 is extremely restrictive for any business. 136 137 Buddy Hartley: I don’t think we can change state law. I think what we have done is a good start. 138 139 Maxecine Mitchell: I hope we don’t discourage people with small business and expenses. 140 141 Tony Blake: I would like to see documentation as to when 419 applies. 142 143 Ashley Moncado: It applies to everything. 144 145 Tony Blake: I am not going to invite building inspectors to the house. 146 147 Lisa Stuckey: I want to reiterate my employee issue which I think is a lot more flexible. In the Chapel Hill one it 148 states that no equipment or process shall be employed that will cause noise, vibration, etc. If you are putting a 149 business in a home it is part of the impact. What about signs? 150 151 Ashley Moncado: The signage was not brought up. 152 153 Maxecine Mitchell: The HOA has restrictions also. 154 155 Lisa Stuckey: How will this be enforced? 156 157 Craig Benedict: If it is blatantly evident, we will look into it. 158 159 Pete Hallenbeck: I like on the first page that the major occupations located on a shared private road will be 160 required to submit a private road maintenance agreement. Private road agreements will tear everybody up. The 161 major home occupations have a 3,000 foot limit. I would imagine if an artist bought 10 or 30 acres and wanted to 162