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Approved 7/1/2015 <br />13 <br />Paul Guthrie: The state doesn’t require a facility to be built but does the state specify who can use it? 589 <br /> 590 <br />Ashley Moncado: Yes 591 <br /> 592 <br />Paul Guthrie: Anybody? 593 <br /> 594 <br />Ashley Moncado: Well do they specify it has to be a physically or mentally impaired individual NC resident. 595 <br /> 596 <br />Lydia Wegman: And a relative 597 <br /> 598 <br />Ashley Moncado: Yes 599 <br /> 600 <br />Paul Guthrie: And a NC resident on top of that? 601 <br /> 602 <br />Pete Hallenbeck: That’s where your submittal requirements came from the state law? 603 <br /> 604 <br />Ashley Moncado: Yes, all of this is the state law. We cannot change it if it’s not identical it’s very similar. 605 <br /> 606 <br />Paul Guthrie: The owner of the property has to be a NC resident and the recipient of the housing has to be 607 <br />a NC resident. 608 <br /> 609 <br />Ashley Moncado: Yes 610 <br /> 611 <br />Paul Guthrie: The lawyers are going to have a field day with this one. 612 <br /> 613 <br />Pete Hallenbeck: And it’s going to cost you about $100,000. 614 <br /> 615 <br />Craig Benedict: Whey you get a mandate from the state and you start trying to tweak it it’s a slippery slope. 616 <br />So we can resolve some of the options about having people not related by blood living in these accessory 617 <br />structures. I would suggest let’s get this statue, preemption of a lot of our other rules, put in and address 618 <br />the other issues about being more flexible and not having the relationship stuff addressed by other portions 619 <br />of the code. Right now how many people do we allow unrelated by blood in the house? 620 <br /> 621 <br />Ashley Moncado: 3 622 <br /> 623 <br />Craig Benedict: Some places allow more than that so I mean there could be a case where you want to go 624 <br />up to 4 or 5 so we would be suggesting other amendments to the code to allow housing opportunities that’s 625 <br />the new trend. I think we could make an amendment to this and the state says are you adhering to us and 626 <br />we say yes and made it even better and they are like Orange County did something again to our 627 <br />minimums. That’s just an idea I think we can address other sections of the code and since the state is 628 <br />asking for this almost verbatim it would be better to let this fly. 629 <br /> 630 <br />Pete Hallenbeck: I don’t want to take a bad idea and say we combed it’s hair and put lipstick on it and now 631 <br />it’s good. 632 <br /> 633 <br />Lydia Wegman: Craig, when you say address it in the code you would have to develop new amendments to 634 <br />the code 635 <br /> 636 <br />Craig Benedict: Yes 637