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Approved <br />A member stated what the City's liability was if somebody got sick off of produce sold in the City <br />A member responded she believed this would be very hard to prove the City had any liability. <br />Ms. Gundlach stated the issue was people coming to someone's home and purchasing produce. <br />Mr. Hatch stated he did not have many complaints regarding the selling of produce outside of a home <br />A member asked if there was a yard sale regulation. <br />Another member asked if they had a regulation regarding Craiglist items being sold. <br />Mr. Hatch responded generally yard sales were larger in scale than the selling of produce that they have seen <br />A member stated given the lot size in the City she did not believe there would ever be enough produce produced to be sold <br />in mass quantities. She agreed this was different than a yard sale. <br />A member stated if someone had that much produce to sell that they could sell it at a farmer's market. She did not believe <br />they should be allowed to sell it out of their homes. She stated she would vote for regulation. However, she did not want <br />to regulate some child having a lemonade stand. <br />Chair Howard noted a yard sale was usually a weekend or one or two days, but what happened if somebody was selling <br />out of their home every day. <br />A member asked what would happen if someone wanted to sell a goat or a horse. Mr. Hatch responded he believed this <br />would apply to the sale of produce only. <br />Ms. Gundlach stated they have one complaint about somebody growing enough vegetables that it arose to a home <br />business status. She stated there were very specific home occupation ordinance standards, but the attorney was not <br />comfortable enforcing CSA's under that ordinance. <br />A member stated it sounded like the behavior was somewhat abusive to him, so why would they not modify the home <br />business standard to include this. Mr. Hatch responded if they wanted to address this under the home business standard, <br />then they would vote for regulation. <br />A member stated she believed the selling of produce and a CSA should be separated out and addressed separately. <br />Mr. Hatch stated many times the City deal with gray issues in the ordinance and the way to deal with it is to contact the <br />City attorney and ask if they would feel comfortable prosecuting an issue and if they would, then staff goes out to enforce <br />it, but many times legal does not feel comfortable prosecuting it. <br />Mr. Hatch stated in 2008 he made a recommendation for the regulation of chickens, but not on produce. <br />Chair Howard asked how often did they have an issue of the sale of produce. Ms. Gundlach responded it was only one <br />time they had this issue. She stated commercial activities were allowed in the home. The issue was if there was <br />offensive behavior such as too much traffic. She noted for a CSA to be offensive it might include tilling up their entire <br />yard, having large farming equipment, spraying pesticides, etc. She stated the commercial aspect might not be offensive. <br />A member stated if there is regulation it should address the behaviors. <br />5 <br />