Severance planning commission approves home-based dog grooming at 979 Mouflon Drive

The Severance Planning Commission approved a use-by-special-review to allow a home-based dog-grooming business to operate at 979 Mouflon Drive during a May planning commission meeting (date not specified). The permit was granted with an additional building-department condition requiring waste from the grooming tub be connected to the sanitary sewer by an indirect waste pipe or floor sink.

Planner Regina Olsen presented the staff report, saying the applicant seeks to relocate an existing home-based grooming operation that was originally approved in 2023. "The staff recommends that the planning commission approve this use by special review ... for a home based business for the dog grooming with the additional condition labeled item e," Olsen said. She told the commission the grooming would occur in the third garage stall, customers would park in the driveway, services would be provided between 8 a.m. and 5…