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you can start a farm and start an Ag tourism operation immediately, you have to file a Schedule <br />F. I think thats good. Thats the way it should be. And with that Ill close my comments. <br />GALDONES:Thank you. Questions of Mr. Conant? If none, thank you very much. Mr. <br />Yuen? <br />YUEN:Well the purpose of this hearing is to get feedback from the public and <br />from the Commissioners on a Bill that we will eventually forward up to the County Council. I <br />dont what the Commissions view of it is right now. I can tell you that after hearing the <br />testimony in considering this a little further the modifications that I would like to make will <br />impart that we allow Ag tourism with proof of investment that would implanting crops that <br />should yield the equivalent dollar amount when the crops are mature and that would take care of <br />the fruit crop situation. Im not inclined to accept the suggestion that we just take a Schedule F <br />or we have no dollar limitation because this is supposed to be something that is helping a <br />commercialfarmermakealittlemoney.Andso,theexampleof,therearecertainlypeoplethat <br />are in farming and they make 5,000, 6,000 dollars a year but it really is designed to help the <br />person whose, farming is a major part of their income rather than just a side-line and to help that <br />kind of operation. So I would like to keep a dollar amount in there. The number of visitors is an <br />arbitrary number in some respect. I do think that there should be a number. The comment that is <br />made about a large operation, remember that what this bill does is it carves out an area where <br />you can operate with minimal regulation. That is plan approval, you dont have to come to a <br />Planning Commission, you dont have a public hearing, you dont have to put notice in the <br />newspaper but you will be safe and assured that you have a legal operation. One of the <br />difficulties has been that there are, people start up little Ag tourism operations, sometimes their <br />neighbors object and then we get into a major Donny brook over do you need a permit, come in <br />for the permit, the contested case hearing and the like. And we wanted to have, to give this room <br />to operate a level that you clearly can operate at and you dont need a special permit. Now, the <br />bigger operation, the operation that wants to have a restaurant, they can operate, but they have to <br />get a special permit. We do think that there should be a level that you dont need a special <br />permit. It is a big deal to get a special permit. We know that theres a lot involved to it. For the <br />peopleontheoutsideitsevenmoreofadauntingchallenge.Idlowerthenumberfrom40,000 <br />but my suggestion would be 30,000. The suggestion about a notice to neighbors has pros and <br />cons.Myownfeelingisthatwhenwehavesomethinglikethisthatsaplanapprovalthat <br />doesnt call for public hearing I would rather just, I would rather not give notice to neighbors. <br />What happens is that they will have, they may have lots of objects but the way this is written is <br />that you have the right to get your plan approval even if the neighbor doesnt want it. You have <br />to follow the standards, you have to have the off street parking and loading, you have the hours <br />of operation. If the neighbor comes in and doesnt like it, they will, the operator will have to <br />abide by those conditions if they operate past 6 oclock at night the neighbor can bring that as a <br />violation. But if they come in to us and say we just dont want it, we have to, the Department <br />has to say, well Im sorry even though we gave you notice and the opportunity to comment, we <br />would try to be polite about this and say, well, theres nothing we can do about it. And so, thats <br />why, if were going to have level that is just allowed then I would say no notice to neighbors. <br />The final change Id like to make is that reading through this I realized that what weve done is <br />weve also defined agriculture tourism in industrial and commercial zones. This is a completely <br />different animal. You may want to have agricultural tourism of say, there may be a sugar mill <br />could be an industrial zone and you could have agricultural tourism in it. Thats really a <br />11 <br />EXHIBIT E <br /> <br />