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we should do it the simplest way possible. I think that F.A.R. numbers we have now, that has <br />been in this program for some months now, are wholly adequate for the size of square footage <br />we ought to allow to be built on any particular lot. I would agree that we don't want to make <br />it so complicated in that you have three tests to meet, for anybody, including staff. I think we <br />do need to address solar access. If it is not through the bulk plane then we have to come up <br />with something else. <br />Commissioner McAvinew - How do we define solar access, there has to be some criteria. <br />Some basis time of year, percentage, something that needs to be defined. Some people might <br />like to be shady. We are assuming everybody wants to have the sun. We do need to define <br />solar access in some way. There is some computer software out there that can simulate solar <br />access over the period of a year. Maybe if we are going to get particular with solar access we <br />need something like that. <br />Peter Kernkamp - There is also the legitimate question that there may already be, depending <br />on the exact situation you are in, where there is a house that is already off set with a large <br />setback on the south side so they are already protecting their own solar access. <br />Commissioner Solek - With my house I do have a significant south buffer to the house next to <br />me, which is one story. They do block a portion of my sun during the day, but unless they go <br />up another story there is not an issue. The neighbor to the north has a very significant <br />southern buffer and as long as they don't build out towards my house there would not be a <br />problem. <br />Commissioner Boulet - Another issue is what type of access are we trying to protect. Gardens, <br />whether or not you get direct sunlight in a window. <br />Commissioner VanNostrand - I don't think it is an issue at all except during the winter. <br />Commissioner Puryear - One of my concerns is that the point of this was for people to be able <br />to rebuild there garage, where it was before it fell over, right on the property line. It seems to <br />me that we have taken that direction and then said, while we are at it lets protect rights to solar <br />access. I did not hear that as a problem to begin with. <br />Commissioner Solek - At the last meeting Peter Stewart said that was the biggest issue that he <br />had heard. <br />Commissioner Renfrew - I think if we are going to address this whole issue, solar access is <br />one item that should be included. It seems to me to come up with and F.A.R., or anything <br />else that regulates the extent of building, without addressing solar access is an incomplete <br />solution to the problem. <br />11 <br />