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the sale of wine. Wineries must demonstrate they are a winery first as currently written in the ordinance, keeping this with this theme in any future versions of an updated Winery Ordinance. • Winery Clusters or a congregation of wineries in close proximity. This is an area the WOTF has not addressed yet, but poses many questions. For example we will need to discuss how to control the various impacts listed above when they run the risk of becoming even more intense due to a compounding number of events? Page 2 By way of background, the first thing the WOTF did was to listen to the neighbors of wineries represented on our WOTF. Based on those conversations, the WOTF crafted a "Good Neighbor Policy"that would become a part of the County's documentation when a winery applies for and is granted event permits. The policy would be agreed to and signed by the winery owner prior to receiving permits for events. The WOTF draft neighbor policy is attached to this report. The intent and spirit of the policy is simply to be a good neighbor, not infringing on your neighbors space or enjoyment of their peaceful rural living with the recognition that the rural and agricultural environment is different than that of an urban zone. Refining this Good Neighbor document and gaining consensus on the policy took several weeks. The WOTF then looked at some "winery first issues and proposed putting greater capacities and case quantities on smaller& boutique wineries and off-site cellars. The WOTF believes in order to sell wine and hold events that promote the sale of"YOUR" wine,the winery must be making its own wine. We continue to work through the many variables that come into play creating many different scenarios in this one topic area. As this year's harvest kicked into high-gear we lost many of our key task force members to the task of bringing in this year's grape harvest. Because of this, the WOTF has taken a break from its weekly meetings until October 22nd, at which time we will reconvene our weekly meetings and finish the task of developing solutions to the challenges and concerns. As you might imagine we have had some very good and lengthy discussions on many topics revolving around noise and parking. While we have not captured in writing the exact solutions or positions on these two key impacts;we can share with you the WOTF is proposing the number of events with amplified sound should be cut dramatically. Also,the WOTF is addressing how to handle sound created by any event in order to mitigate noise heard by winery neighbors, and evoking the Good Neighbor premise. The vehicle to implement this is still under discussion as this may be new and different from the County's current decibel requirement. 21 Page