INC NEWS - 2 things as neighborhoods meet this month

[Colin Crossman]

Does the "Home Occupation" rule cover telecommuters?

-Colin Crossman
Walltown

RW Pickle wrote:
> The first is an INC piece of business.
>
> Please mention this at your Jan. neighborhood meetings. This is the first
> year where we are starting our calendar dues year, to run with the
> calendar year (Jan.-Dec.). So from here on out (unless we change it for
> some unknown reason), INC dues will become due in Jan. for that particular
> year. This should make it easy for everyone to remember. Our dues are
> still a bargain; $25 for the whole neighborhood organization! So send in
> your dues for 2007! You can mail them to me (the Treasurer) at:
>
> Randy Pickle
> 27 Beverly Dr.
> Durham, 27707-2223
>
> Make checks payable to INC (or the Inter Neighborhood Council)
>
> The second item I'd like to get some feedback on relates to an upcoming
> change in the UDO I have requested. The first week in Feb. (on the 7th),
> the Joint City County Planning Committee meets to discuss the addition of
> a maximum square footage for "home occupations" as found within the UDO
> regulations. For the last 20 or so years (in the City), it has been 400
> square feet or less than 30% of the livable space. When we adopted the new
> UDO last year, we left off a maximum cap of square footage (like the 400
> square feet it once was) and just left it at less than 30% of the livable
> space. Their meeting in Feb. will be to discuss adding a maximum cap to
> the UDO (as it was in the past before the UDO was adopted). See if there
> are any feeling one way or the other about how much square footage should
> be allowed from your groups. There are a number of options:
>
> * make it the 400 square feet that it always has been
>
> * increase the square footage to ???
>
> * leave it at 30% and allow any size cap as long as it meets this requirement
>
> * or any other solution you might want
>
> This will just be the first meeting to discuss the change. If they decide
> to do so, there will be the usual public comment periods etc. as it moves
> through the system toward being adopted. Frank Duke asked me what we
> wanted for a cap; I'm asking you if the 400 square feet it has always been
> will work? He said he wouldn't oppose the ammendment, he just wanted a
> square footage figure that was thought to be the magic number.
>
> Just ask your neighborhood group and see what they think. Send any
> comments you might have to me off the list server.
>
> Thanks,
> RWP
>
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