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Approved 2/5/14 4 Pete Hallenbeck: So does this get back to your $90 concern then? 163 164 Paul Guthrie: That’s one of them but it’s much more delicate than that. 165 166 Pete Hallenbeck: My second comment on this is on the minor home occupation, the 750 sq. ft. limit is interesting, it 167 takes me out of the game for the sq. footage I have in my house. It takes room to have a machine shop and test 168 benches and rooms for parts and electronics and I don’t think how much of your home you use is something that 169 impacts your neighbors. However, I’ll also point out that as an ordinance it is pretty nice because if that really 170 bothered me I could apply for a major home occupation and there is a mechanism to do that. That brings me to my 171 last comments and I can’t remember an ordinance that had so many lines in the sand that were being discussed. 172 We talked about sq. footage, number of trips, setbacks, what activity you can do, number of visits, size of vehicles, 173 and it is quite extraordinary for this Board to deliberate something that has so many different thresholds and lines in 174 the sand. I think it makes it a very difficult thing to discuss. Those are all my comments. Doesn’t anybody have 175 anything thing else to add? 176 177 178 MOTION by Tony Blake to recommend to the County Commissioners to accept this recommendation with comments. 179 Seconded by James Lea. 180 VOTE: PASSED 7-1 (Guthrie opposed) 181 182 Paul Guthrie: I believe that with this ordinance we are moving into an area that we are not prepared to deal with and 183 I think that while the intention is good, if you read the language carefully, especially when you start picking up the 184 UDO and reading the references, that it exposes the County to some great difficulty, that’s point one. Point two, due 185 to the current economic situation, the more and more independent, small businesses erupting whether they start in 186 the garage in California and become a billion dollar corporation or whether they start in a garage in Orange County 187 and become a fifty thousand dollar organization, this can and may, if not administered in a very careful way, be an 188 inhibition to economic development and to small business. I would much prefer to see the County develop a small 189 business license system using some of these definitions than to smuggle it through under a regulation of the use of 190 an individual residential property. With my own experience, two different enterprises in our family, one which falls 191 under this and one which does not, I would vote no. 192 193 194 AGENDA ITEM 9: COMMITTEE/ADVISORY BOARD REPORTS 195 196 a) Board of Adjustment 197 b) Orange Unified Transportation 198 199 200 AGENDA ITEM 10: ADJOURNMENT 201 202 Planning Board meeting was adjourned by consensus. 203 204 205 ____________________________________ Pete Hallenbeck, Chair