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Nelson County requires zoning approval before certain business licenses after state confidentiality change
Summary
The Board adopted Ordinance O2025-05 to require zoning approval before issuing business licenses for new businesses or businesses that change location or description for uses regulated by zoning, a procedural response to a new state law that restricts sharing of accommodations-intermediary data with local departments.
Nelson County supervisors approved Ordinance O2025-05 on Tuesday, adding a pre-licensing zoning-approval requirement for certain business licenses to address state confidentiality rules affecting accommodations-intermediary data.
County staff said the change responds to recently enacted state legislation (cited as HB 23-83 and SB 1402, effective July 1, 2025) and a provision in Title 58.1 that makes information provided by accommodations intermediaries confidential and unavailable to other local departments. Candy, a county staff member, told the board that the confidentiality requirement prevents the Commissioner of the…
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