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<br />SHIMAOKA: Okay, thank you.
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<br />PALMA-GLENNIE: Thanks.
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<br />CHURCH: I’ve got something, too. To what extent is enforcement, or lack thereof, a bigger
<br />problem than the language changes that are actually proposed? It sounds to me like that’s part of
<br />the problem there.
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<br />PALMA-GLENNIE: Yeah, I mean, I don’t really see ironclad, I, I just don’t see, there is not
<br />funding for enforcement. One thing I don’t see is where the funding for enforcement is coming,
<br />and if you don’t have funding for enforcement, you have an overtaxed Planning Department
<br />already with so many things going on and so many places to go with so few inspectors. I mean,
<br />you’ve got to have, you know, you can only get so much blood from a stone. And so I’m not
<br />really blaming anyone; I’m just saying that before there is an ag tourism bill, there needs to be
<br />things that cover all the problems that are going to come. I know there’s people doing ag tourism
<br />now for one under the other, an old bill, which seems like it’s kind of working, and there’s people
<br />that are doing it illegally. And I just, I think that there needs to be definitely site visits, they have
<br />to be random. I think permitting and renewing your permits, I mean, I’m not a lawyer but I know
<br />that, I’ve just seen people get away with a lot of stuff because it’s either not clearly written or
<br />nobody would come and do anything. So I just, you know, and the last, I don’t know if it’s this
<br />bill or the last incarnation of bill, there’s been so many, but one of them said that was relying upon
<br />neighbors to report their neighbors. Well, I received death threats, so, I mean, for just even asking
<br />about the simplest things. So I don’t really think that’s the way to go. And, and, and without a
<br />bill I feel like we just might not have more problems, or as many problems, than having a new bill
<br />that says, okay, now you can do it, this, you know, because people just break the law. I mean, a
<br />lot of people are great, and a lot of people, and a lot of, and one thing that somebody had asked,
<br />and I think super important, is for the people, the landowners to be living there, because a lot of
<br />times you have absentee owners who are just making money off of this operation; they don’t
<br />suffer the consequences what’s going on in their, you know, it’s the same with Airbnb and a lot of
<br />it, you know, so. I mean you folks just are really our frontline for, you know, helping to prevent
<br />what is just going to cause, I mean, nobody wants to do lawsuit. Lawsuits are horrible; they cost
<br />us all money and time that we just don’t need. So I’m just not sure if we, so many people have
<br />said this through the years is why are we, maybe we don’t need this bill, maybe that’s the an-
<br />maybe we just need to rely on the old trust —
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<br />CHURCH: All right, thank you.
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<br />PALMA-GLENNIE: Thank you for your question. Thanks.
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<br />UNGER: Thank you.
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<br />PALMA-GLENNIE: I really appreciate your letting me go first —
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<br />UNGER: Yeah, I hope you are able to stick around because a lot of these issues will be discussed
<br />with the Planning Department’s presentation, and really focus more on what they are trying to do
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