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Approved 12/4/13 3 Perdita Holtz: Yes, but these pages only have to do with the rural buffer. Pete Hallenbeck: So we can comment on the rural buffer and in general. The Ag Board thought the red items should not be allowed in the rural buffer. I agree that removing the red items would be good. Tony Blake: when you say regional meat processing you mean something like Siler City as opposed to your seasonal deer hunter. Perdita Holtz: Correct. On page 100 of your full ORC packet there is a definition. Tony Blake: Would a seasonal restaurant farm fall under the farm as long as it is a bona fide farm? Perdita Holtz: It you are located on the farm and serving products from the farm it probably is. Pete Hallenbeck: One of the comments from Howard McAdams was that part of this is to take the seasonal nature of farm income and level it out throughout the year. Tony Blake: I was asking because of this idea of the county fair. The county fairs that I am used to include farmers bringing in their fares and trades and you don’t want to discourage too much of that. You want people to be able to bring things to the county fair. Perdita Holtz: This is the ORC’s opportunity to shape the amendments going to the public hearing in February. Paul Guthrie: Someone has a bona fide farm with 50 acres of timber and he wants to start a saw mill rather than haul it off to someone else. He wants to use half of that money to build a building for that. Perdita Holtz: Yes, as long as you are harvesting and milling the timber on your property. Paul Guthrie: Don’t you get into foggy ground when you talk about a commercial stable and an equestrian center is along the lines of hosting show events whereas a stable is boarding horses. Perdita Holtz: An equestrian center is for larger scale events that could happen regularly whereas a commercial stable is for boarding and lessons and may have an occasional smaller-scale horse show. Perdita Holtz: Does everyone kind of agree with Pete and what the APB was saying about allowing ASE-CZ to be applied to the rural buffer but to take out those intensive uses for consideration in the rural buffer and in the ASE-CZ that outside those more intensive uses should stay as intensive uses. Pete Hallenbeck: It sets the ground work for when it goes to the BOCC. When they break the ground as to whether this can be allowed in the rural buffer and set the stage for what can be and slicing the rural buffer out as having it own allowable activity in compared to the rest of the county. AGENDA ITEM 4: ADJOURNMENT Meeting was adjourned