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Sierra Vista staff unveils streamlined business-license draft, opens 30-day public comment period
Summary
City staff presented a slimmed-down draft of the city's business-license ordinance that codifies longstanding fee exemptions for nonprofits and religious organizations, removes duplicative provisions, and will be released for a 30-day public comment period before returning as an ordinance.
City staff presented a streamlined draft of Sierra Vista’s business-license ordinance Wednesday and told council members the draft will go to a 30-day public comment period before returning as an ordinance for council consideration. The draft consolidates and removes language staff said duplicates community development and code-enforcement rules and codifies long-practiced fee exemptions for certain organizations.
City clerk’s office staff member Ms. Adams, who delivered the staff report, said the ordinance rewrite was intended to ‘‘make it easy on everybody and kind of make things a little cleaner and a little clearer.’’ She told the council the last update tied to a fee change was more than a decade ago and that the rewrite removes…
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