Policy A-3

Promote “Home Industry” or “Cottage Industry” Mixed Use Development for New Millennium Information Technology Businesses.
It seems likely that “Information Age” industries of the future are going to be compatible with the low density residential environment of Mariposa’s rural areas. These small knowledge based or information based industries will rely on telecommunications technology as the primary means of moving a product around the world. These types of enterprises are likely to require special telecommunications infrastructure but would otherwise be indistinguishable from conventional residential development. These enterprises will require special County operating and permitting procedures.

Quantifiable Objective:
By the Year 2000, the Mariposa County EDC’s objective is to:
Assist in the establishment of 25 basic “Home” or “Cottage” enterprises throughout the County.

Implementing Programs & Actions
A-3a Review and suggest changes in the County’s “Home Industry” regulations to eliminate impediments to “mixed use” types of industrial development in rural areas of the County.
Performance standards should be reviewed with respect to development on information age industries locating in rural areas of the County. Provisions should be established to improve land use compatibility between residential and information based industries and provide a means by which the development rights of these industries become “vested” in accordance with state law and County regulations. This “vesting” provision is necessary to assure that industrial investments in land and improvements are protected.

A-3b Promote rural home industry development.
Develop information and hand-outs to prospective business start-ups that could be located in the County under the “Home Industry” land use provisions.

A-3c Support new and existing home industry industrial operators in utilizing the County’s Home Industry regulations.
Provide technical support and advocacy for the location and development of Home Industries which are compatible with the industrial recruitment objectives of the Mariposa County EDC.

A-3d Work with the County of Mariposa to identify, zone and develop industrial or business parks which could accommodate industries which are not appropriate for “Home Industry” sites.
Assist and support efforts of the Mariposa County in developing appropriate zoning standards for Business Parks or Industrial Campus types of development. The Mariposa County EDC may assist in the development of these sites and provide tenant recruitment and marketing support as necessary. The focus of the EDC efforts would be limited to “Basic” industries.