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Administration seeks to simplify business licensing; council asks for clearer impact analysis on categories covered
Summary
City administration presented proposed changes to business-licensing rules — removing a duplicative city restaurant license and extending many business-license terms from one year to two — and the subcommittee advanced one ordinance while tabling another for a one‑week follow-up and clearer public guidance.
City administration told the public health and safety subcommittee it has drafted changes to Detroit’s business licensing code intended to reduce friction for small businesses by eliminating a duplicate city restaurant license and aligning license terms and administrative procedures.
Deputy Chief Operating Officer Andrea Taverna and Law Department attorneys described two related ordinance drafts: one to revise the city’s food-service licensing rules (Chapter 19) and another to make broader changes to business licenses (Chapter 28), including extending license terms from one year to two and creating provisional licenses in some circumstances. "Over the last 6 months, the administration undertook a major effort to assess how small…
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