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DARROW: Well it's, I mean, this is why we're here today, to discuss this matter. But again, up to this point there was the commission and the Council had seen a need to allow certain types of uses as part of a condo or an apartment project such as hair salons, or little personal service uses, even massage and chiropractic. So again, there hasn't been a need for a use permitting in RM zoning in condos and apartments up to this point. We as the Planning Department have not received any complaints relating to these types of uses that are affecting surrounding property owners. VAN PERNIS: But isn't it inconsistent to require a special use permit at home residential areas except multiple residential, and is this a vehicle for choosing that? DARROW: I believe I answered that previously. It is an opportunity to look at that,but at this point that's not what has done previ-, has been done previously and that's not what the Planning Director's recommending. At this point we see this as a use that has been working well in the RM zoning district. CARR SMITH: Tracie? CAMERO: Sorry, I should also mention that while these uses are going to be, well are being proposed to be outright permitted, it still doesn't allow them to just come in and get the use automatically. They still have to come in and go through the various administrative functions such as plan approval that will require them to meet certain requirements for the specific zone districts that it's going to be an outright use. CARR SMITH: Thank you. Mike? - VITOUSEK: First question is, in dealing with regulation of medical uses in residential and other areas, is there an exemption to home healthcare? For instance, if someone, an elderly person doesn't want to move out of their home and requires a live-in nurse who she pays to administer medical care to her in her own home. Could that potentially be a use that would be against the zoning rules? DARROW: We current—this was something that was addressed by the Council back in 2007, I believe, where they allowed what are called group-living facilities for up to eight individuals including staff. This is permitted in all zoning districts. And that, basically, it's people that need medical dispensed similar to what you're saying, and it works either lives there or there's staff that are there 24 hours a day. VITOUSEK: But not, what I'm talking about is establishing a separate facility, I'm talking about in their own home, if someone wants to have a, or just to get a massage in their own home. Would the person coming to give them a massage need to get a special permit for the property that someone lives in in order to get a massage? DARROW: There's two vehicles for that. If you're referring to massage and not a nurse or medical-type thing. There's the home occupation that we currently have that has certain limits. At this point, because that's in a residential zoning and we're requiring a use permit, we're about 4 EXHIBIT G