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<br />7 <br /> 322 <br />Paul Guthrie: So the original house does not have to related to the individual at all? 323 <br /> 324 <br />Ashley Moncado: No, that’s been removed. 325 <br /> 326 <br />Paul Guthrie: Okay. So, why are we defining a family as five? 327 <br /> 328 <br />Ashley Moncado: Because we have other issues regarding how many people are living within one single family 329 <br />home, or a unit. Which this, the family definition is being changed because that was an issue that was brought by the 330 <br />commissioners. They didn’t like that it was limited to three, they wanted to see it increased. So, to me, it sounds like 331 <br />these are two different things. So, the family definition, we’re addressing that in conjunction with this just because it’s 332 <br />something that’s been discussed previously that we just needed to address. We wanted to address it this time as part 333 <br />of this amendment package. But, there’s no family relationship requirement related to the temporary custodial care 334 <br />units anymore. 335 <br /> 336 <br />Lydia Wegman: So maybe Paul is raising a good point as far as the family that should be considered independently, 337 <br />from the temporary custodial unit because it is true that now the term family doesn’t mean blood, marriage or 338 <br />adoption. People do choose to live together. 339 <br /> 340 <br />Ashley Moncado: There’s a possibility you could have a lot of people living in a house without having some sort of 341 <br />standard and structures to it. I understand that there’s a lot of people that have families that they have children, 342 <br />they’re not married or they’re blended families. But, if you’re looking at a family of that situation, I mean you could 343 <br />look at potentially having twenty people living in a house. And we have no way that you have to put some sort of limit 344 <br />on it to avoid that situation because then you could be looking at environmental health concerns where they have 345 <br />twenty people living in a house with four bedrooms. 346 <br /> 347 <br />Paul Guthrie: And you have adequate definitions in other parts of planning laws and regulations that limits the 348 <br />occupancy of a house? 349 <br /> 350 <br />Ashley Moncade: Well our family definition is also reflective of the North Carolina State Building Code. Which the five 351 <br />is derived directly from. There’s our standard but there’s another state standard that they have to adhere by. 352 <br /> 353 <br />Patricia Roberts: Well perhaps if they’re under 18 they don’t count. 354 <br /> 355 <br />Ashley Moncade: We can’t do that. The state building code doesn’t look at age. 356 <br /> 357 <br />Tony Blake: Chapel Hill is even more restrictive than this to reduce the number of students and people parking on the 358 <br />lawn and all that stuff. That was directly to address… 359 <br /> 360 <br />Patricia Roberts: It’s four, right? 361 <br /> 362 <br />Tony Blake: Yeah, it’s one less. 363 <br /> 364 <br />Lisa Stuckey: If the parents were not married, it would still be allowed? 365 <br /> 366 <br />Craig Benedict: Yes, as it’s unrelated by blood. 367 <br /> 368 <br />Maxecine Mitchell: My understanding of it is, definitely people who are unrelated. So you can have a bunch of people 369 <br />sharing a house less than six people and one of them wants to bring their parents on the property and put this 370 <br />portable unit up, my question would be then that wouldn’t be allowed because you have too many unrelated people 371 <br />there. Am I understanding that right? 372 <br /> 373