2017-01-05 Hearing Transcript - County Council Bill 227 Draft 2

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HENKEL: What about, does the ag income still have to exceed the ag tourism income? DARROW: Yes. HENKEL: What if the agI mean, I can think of an instance. What if you were running a nursery that produces native species for reforestation where it was kind of a non-profit entity? DARROW: Iif that's an agricultural tourism operation and they're coming to see the nursery as being the agricultural working farm or whatever you want to call it, that would, the nursery would exceed the agricultural tourism aspect of it. So, you wouldn't count that as the agricultural tourism. A good example of that is currently in our Code. They allow for agricultural processing facilities to be the primary agricultural activity, and then the visitors would be accessory to that. So, even the processing facility would be considered part of the agricultural gross revenue. So, that would be similar in that case I would think. But, I don't recall ever, I mean again, we've only had two operations come in. HENKEL: In any case, the worse scenario would be that someone would have to get a Special Use Permit if they deviated from it. DARROW: Yeah. Yeah, if they don't, if there's any question, and what will be happening is that one of our divisions will be reviewing that regis—that registration form. If they feel that they've exceeded the limits that are allowed under the, if this gets passed, then they will be asked to come in for a Special Permit or a Use Permit. HENKEL: Does anyone else have any questions for staff? CLARKSON: Yeah, what was the one complaint about? DARROW: This was a, believe it or not, it was, I won't mention the name, but it was a coffee farm, and it was being conducted in a residential zoning, and it was kind of well known. It was actually on, like they did TV shows on it and what was happening was buses and everything were coming up to the property and so it was basically the impacts that were being generated in the residential zoning of the activities that were occurring. Before I conclude, I wanted to mention, too, that we did receive a letter from Cory Harden after the Background and Recommendation were distributed to the Commission. Additionally, this morning, just for further clarification, it can be difficult to read the Ramseyer's version, so what I have done is passed out one of the current Code sections having to do with the definitions, Plan Approval, and agricultural tourism, as well as the Planning Director's proposal alternative language, so you can kind of compare them with each other and be able to see the differences. It's a little easier than trying to do it with the Ramseyer version. Anyway, thank you. EXHIBIT C