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Approved 2/5/14 3 changing of the economics in this society, that we ought to be very careful about how we do this. That was one set 109 of comments. My personal opinion, and I think everybody has heard me before on the record, my personal opinion 110 is you will have massive ignoring of this. What will come will be selective enforcement. I’m not comfortable with 111 selective enforcement. I think when you have enforcement, you enforce those who are not in compliance but the 112 enforcement actions and the litigation etc. that will follow will take precious time from the planning department and 113 the legal hypothesis of the County on this and I question that in the area of minor home occupation. I think with that 114 I’ll let others comment. 115 116 Herman Staats: I have no comments, I thought it was nicely done and it has been discussed here many times so I 117 have no other comments. 118 119 James Lea: No comments at this time. 120 121 Buddy Hartley: I don’t have any problems with the standards set. 122 123 Maxecine Mitchell: I agree with them. 124 125 Tony Blake: I reread it and I don’t have any issues with it. I think it is well put together. 126 127 Johnny Randall: I read it and I couldn’t find anything of concern. However, what Paul just brought up, so in terms of 128 people not conforming to these regulations, how is it going to be enforced? Is it going to just create contempt for 129 the law for people who don’t think they can be caught? 130 131 Pete Hallenbeck: Let me throw my two cents in on that and then see what Michael says. I think what you said is 132 very true. You have all these ordinances and there are always people who are going to fly under the radar and do 133 what they want but I think part of the goal here is that if somebody is doing that and it is bothering their neighbors 134 there is a recourse. I don’t know how you get people to follow the rules, it is very difficult, but I do like the fact that 135 at least they are there. It is very difficult to call out a neighbor, it’s a catch 22, we all want to be able to do what we 136 can but we like to be able to stop someone else if it is bothersome to us. 137 138 Pete Hallenbeck: Michael, does that pretty much jive with what...... 139 140 Michael Harvey: I’m not going to add anything. Thank you though. 141 142 Pete Hallenbeck: I have two things, one is a question about 5.4.3 special events where it talks about arts and 143 cultural special events in particular it calls out the Orange County Open Studio Tour. The other thing that I am 144 familiar with is the farm tour. 145 146 Ashley Moncado: That is exempt, that would be considered part of a bona fide farm and considered agricultural 147 and covered under a different set of rules. 148 149 Tony Blake: But that just an example. 150 151 Ashley Moncado: Yes, it is being used as an example. That was specifically called out as an example but also to 152 highlight it as well. 153 154 Pete Hallenbeck: That’s fine but by throwing it in there seemed odd to have an ordinance call out a specific event 155 instead of making it in general so I wanted to make sure it was an example. 156 157 Ashley Moncado: We could add “for example”. 158 159 Paul Guthrie: That’s about a 100, anywhere from 90 to 120 artists, who once a year open up their studios in their 160 residences by in large for the tour over two days for two weeks. Every one of those artists will have to pay $90. 161 162