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Commissioner Narum requested that if this was going to be an ordinance and handled across the counter, applications with a certain number of students would warrant review by the Planning Commission. She suggested the number 25-50, similar to an assembly number. Commissioner Blank and Chair Pearce said this has been done; the threshold number was 20 or 25. Commissioner Blank added that if the application was for 20 children or more, it should go to the Planning Commission for a use permit. Chair Pearce clarified that it would be an over-the-counter approval for 20 students or less. She asked staff to be consistent with whatever is done with the schools and tutoring. Ms. Stern confirmed that 20 students or less would be processed through the ordinance, and over 20 students would be processed as a use permit. Commissioner Narum also suggested the idea of a 24-hour cooling-off period on any application related to child care, where an applicant could submit all paperwork for the business license and return in 24 hours to give time staff to review the request. Commissioner Blank stated that staff would not be able to review an applicant’s documentation for criminal background check, health screening, sign-in and sign-out sheet, CPR training, disaster plan, driver’s license, driver’s and liability insurance, open space equivalent, fire and safety codes, restrooms, and plain language disclosure in less than 24 hours. He noted that staff would simply receive all the documentation, review them, and then approve the application. The Commissioners agreed. Mr. Dolan inquired whether or not the Commission wanted to explore the exclusion language. Ms. Stern stated that the concept of finding that these are uses where parents rely on them for child care is what everyone knows as child care. She noted that she felt it was difficult to translate that into language but that staff can work on it. She added that the hours came out of the desire for an objective measure, i.e., whether or not the child stays at the facility for 10 hours or not. Commissioner Blank stated that as Mr. Roush indicated earlier, child care is reliance on picking-up and dropping-off, that it is a “sniff test,” and that when people bring in an application and they have everything that is needed, it will be obvious as to whether or not it is a child care or not. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, September 23, 2009 Page 31 of 34