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Council adopts business-license cleanup; city raises de minimis threshold to $20,000
Summary
Council voted unanimously to amend municipal code to streamline business licensing, change registrations to occur before department inspections, and set a higher local threshold (city recommends $20,000) above the state minimum for license-fee exemption; staff and council said mobile vendors still need permits.
The City Council unanimously adopted an amendment to the city's business-license code on Aug. 26 that streamlines registration and raises the local revenue threshold for exemption from the license fee.
Staff described the change as an operational cleanup: rather than "holding" a business license until the planning or building departments complete inspections, the city will register businesses when they apply and notify the relevant departments…
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