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what are the limits on it, they have to be operated in conjunction with a home, that is youhave to <br />live there. So this application wouldn€t qualify as a home occupation because they don€t live <br />there. If he lived there, thenhe still has another thing that keeps it from being a home <br />occupation. Repair of automobiles is not a home occupation. And there are some reasons for <br />these kinds of things. Uses that are allowed only in industrial zones are not home occupations. <br />So that tends to get some of your possibly louder and more noxious things out of there. But sales <br />of things done on the premises, professional offices, a person who€s an accountant or a real estate <br />agent can legally operate out of their home, as a counselor, for example. So some of the things <br />that we have seen are close to those. And I think the Department would routinely, if we didn€t <br />change it, we would routinely recommend approval of things on that level as special permits as <br />being reasonable things to do that, if they don€t bother people. And in a residential area there <br />really shouldn€t be any reason to limit them in one-acre lots or three-acre lots like you have in <br />the agricultural subdivisions. <br />Thenyougetintothenextlevelupand,of,likethisapplicationwhichcan€tbeahome <br />occupation because of the auto repair or businesses that are a little bit bigger. And I€m, my own <br />view is I€m negative toward special permits as a site for commercial and light industrial uses that <br />we -. It has been a matter of pragmatism over the years to grant them because in many cases <br />there aren€t good locations in some of the areas on the island, like many of the rural areas. It <br />truly is difficult to find a zoned area. So people have, often times they start these up and operate <br />until they get cited, and then they come in for a special permit. Ideally we would find areas and <br />try to first General Plan them and then zone them for people to go into. But it€s really not the <br />ideal way of doing things to have everything operate by a special permit. There may be a level <br />of activity that is a little bigger than a home occupation that is still compatible that we could still <br />keep open for special permits. But what we€re trying to do, I mean, I think our policy has been <br />over the last few years to try to direct special, the light industrial and commercial uses of the <br />larger scale, than things that are strictly things that look like a home occupation, to try to direct <br />them into zoned areas, rather than have this be the way that commercial and light industrial use is <br />developed in the agricultural areas. <br />SPRINGER:Thank you. Is there follow up to that? Commissioner Watanabe. <br />WATANABE:I, you know, I€m pretty comfortable with the five years or earlier thereof <br />limitation. I guess my question is within the revised General Plan do we have an area that is <br />designated for commercial, within that five-mile radius that is stated as part of the condition? <br />YUEN:What I think is lacking is -. You can do auto repair in a Village <br />Commercial zone, and there is an employee limit. Is there a five-employee limit on that? <br />DARROW:I don€t think so. <br />YUEN:No, in a village commercial zone, minor repair. <br />DARROW:Yeah, I don€t think there€s a limit. I can try find it. <br />WATANABE:I guess, I was wondering whether the five-mile should be expanded. <br />Cause you have a five-mile, the first of which either the commercial area becomes available, in <br />which case he would have to locate, but it was restricted to a five-mile radius. And if we don€t <br />5EXHIBIT B <br /> <br />