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[Patricia (Committee Assistant)]: Just things going on here. Hang on. It's pausing my screen share for some reason. I'm just trying to figure that out. Why is that? Hang on. Let me stop it for a moment and find it Thank you. Sorry about the delay. Here.
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: So this is on our committee page, this amendment, and we're trying to bring it up. Double check. Draft 5.1, there's a sort of an incidental change, which I will point out, but the more significant one is at the bottom of page three. There are line 18, section 16 or subsection 16. So the previous version let me see if I can grab the previous version. No no bylaw shall have the effect of prohibiting farming, but may regulate. So now we've basically struck that first part of that sentence instead of bylaw, Where may is that form? Is that part of 16? Yes, yeah.
[Patricia (Committee Assistant)]: Shall I scroll down?
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: The new version, yep. If you want to scroll down, we can see what it says.
[Patricia (Committee Assistant)]: The old version was in our email, right?
[Unidentified Committee Member]: A while back?
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: Yeah. It's also posted, and it's in today's calendar. Mhmm. So then the the section continues. So a bylaw may regulate ingress and egress, citing and setbacks. And this is still I sometimes forget myself when I'm thinking about what are the impact here. Still only applies to parcels that that don't have farming going on right now. So anything that's currently being farmed or would be farmed on July 1 would be exempt. That could not be those parcels could not
[Unidentified Committee Member]: be regulated. Even under three quarters an acre?
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: Yes. Even under three quarters of an acre.
[Unidentified Committee Member]: Can you scroll back up? Yeah. Can you
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: scroll up to the bottom of page three again?
[Patricia (Committee Assistant)]: Yeah. It just straight it cleaned up the language. Check. It it's I mean, there there is water in my cup. Bees follow. Yeah. So you just got rid of
[Unidentified Committee Member]: the butt and egg regularly.
[Patricia (Committee Assistant)]: Yeah. Yes. Butt and egg. Yeah. The
[Unidentified Committee Member]: only thing is that they can regulate after July 1 on something under three quarters of acres A and B.
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: Those are the only things
[Unidentified Committee Member]: that they can regulate after July 1. Yeah, the ones that were there before, they can't even regulate A and B. That's what that means?
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: Yes. So if you are farming, if you've got a parcel that's on half an acre, quarter of an acre, and you're farming, if you are managing to be a farmer by the RAP's definitions on a small parcel, none of this will apply to you. It will only apply to parcels that don't have
[Unidentified Committee Member]: farming happening. So they can't do ingress or egress or set
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: time Towns to can't regulate those things, yeah. I will just say also, we've been discussing this for a long time. Senate version, the Senate's bill that we're gonna be looking at this afternoon has different language here. This conversation isn't over. This is not the end of the road for this topic. And I think that we all recognize that. We have more work to do, but be good to get something, I think, through so that there's another vehicle and the senate might wanna, you know, work on this too.
[Patricia (Committee Assistant)]: Yeah. Absolutely. This this takes it down. I would think that the farm groups would be real happy with this.
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: I don't think the foreign groups are delighted by it. They would prefer to have no possibility of any regulation. I think that that's the way things used to be when there was no ability for towns to regulate. That it's not an unreasonable position for the farm groups to take at all. But they're they're also, I think, bit of a mind that it would be helpful to have something even if it's not perfect.
[Patricia (Committee Assistant)]: Three quarters of an acre, pretty small. They and and this really pertains to livestock, not poultry not poultry. And it pertains to livestock, and it pertains to, you know, if you're selling it from your house, just how the traffic patterns are gonna be. You know? You know, they it doesn't say they could deny people coming in and going out. It's just how the traffic patterns will be.
[Unidentified Committee Member]: Yeah. John, you said something has been left out. It's another
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Right. If you go to page two, line four, Patricia. So the the first section, the a, which is we're only reading the second half of, says that farming is the bylaw under this chapter shall not regulate farming except as described in section 44, twelve, six. And then b says construction of a farm structure as defined in the wraps except as described. And we didn't have it except as described. So I'm sure that was the intent because further down below, does say both farming and farm structures when it talks about what the exceptions are. So this really just makes that consistent and maybe isn't necessary, but I think it was the intent anyway.
[Patricia (Committee Assistant)]: And then there's also, you've got the cultivation of ornamental plants as defined in '6 Yeah, think
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: we did have that in 04/2001. I think that's in the one that's in the calendar. We added that last Friday.
[Patricia (Committee Assistant)]: Cut it out.
[Unidentified Committee Member]: Yeah. Not Japanese, not weird ever. Yeah. For fun.
[Patricia (Committee Assistant)]: Or is it hot? The fried pie each are
[Unidentified Committee Member]: purple blue stripe. Fire bush, fire bush. So I I
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: see the light is ringing to the floor. We should get downstairs. I appreciate everybody coming in a little bit early, and I'm sorry that we've, that this conversation has dragged on as long as it has. I think everybody will be relieved of when and if I actually stand up and present the bill today.
[Unidentified Committee Member]: You present
[Patricia (Committee Assistant)]: it tomorrow, I'm telling you April fools things are going to apply.
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: Okay. Alright. So do we have any just in terms of the straw poll, John is delivering the devotional, we should get down there. But everybody okay with this? Yeah. Alright.
[Unidentified Committee Member]: I'm just showing hands.
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: Yes, yes. Okay, so I see seven hands I will send it to the clerk, and we can adjourn. And I don't know the floors if they're very long.