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overnight stays right...we have a bed &breakfast law now and that <br /> must be registered with the Planning Department through a <br /> Planning Commission hearing...you actually get permitted for <br /> that...at that time the short-term use of single family homes on <br /> stand-alone lots became a new popular thing so now have this new <br /> use of residential dwellings where there's no owner on site...so <br /> they're not exactly bed &breakfast...their something else but <br /> they're not really a allowable use in residential areas but they've <br /> been continuing to exist because paying GE and TAT is the only <br /> really legal thing you could do and then if you do that <br /> you're...you've been...I don't how to say it but...it's been hard for <br /> the Planning Department to regulate it... <br /> Mr. Goodenow: I see... <br /> Ms. Eoff: So by defining it...and all the other Counties in the state have <br /> defined the use...it's been a problem on all the other <br /> islands...we're the last ones to try and invoke a program to get a <br /> handle on it...there's some other ramifications of the registration <br /> process that the state is asking us to...adopt a bill like this because <br /> they need to identify for their proposes...collection of GE and <br /> TAT where the...uses are accruing...so what we doing by <br /> grandfathering in and there's a fee for that yearly re- <br /> grandfathering's...it's called a certificate...non-conforming use <br /> certificate...it's because we're now looking at you as a non- <br /> conforming use in an area that's not really designed for it but we're <br /> offering this non-conforming use certificate so you can continue to <br /> operate...we really didn't want to upset this whole industry <br /> because there's a lot of economy that's based on it now here on our <br /> island...so this was the most fair way to do that...to approach <br /> that... <br /> Mr. Robinson: Madame Chair if I may...I think at this point we're arguing more <br /> of the merits of 108 which is not really the charge of the ethics... <br /> Ms. Eoff: Yes so I guess I was getting to the point of the fee for that... <br /> Mr. Robinson: What I'd like us to do instead of arguing the merits of 108 because <br /> that's you know but it's get to the question of.. <br /> Mr. Goodenow: The reason I asked that and I put it to you like this...I mean...so I <br /> have a choice...I'm gonna pay the five hundred and be <br /> 36 <br />