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Council hears staff proposal to recast home-occupation rules into intensity-based categories
Summary
City planning staff proposed replacing the ordinance's use-based checklist with an intensity-based classification (no impact, minor, major) for home occupations, citing enforcement challenges and new remote-work patterns; council provided feedback and asked staff to refine the draft.
City planning staff presented a draft approach to revising Brookings’ home-occupation regulations, proposing a shift from a checklist of specified uses to an intensity-based system with four categories: no impact, minor, major and prohibited.
Community Development staff introduced Associate Planner Maylee Maika (presented to council) and said staff member Bailey conducted comparative research. The proposed framework would treat truly low-impact, largely computer- or remote-based work as “no impact,” allow modest client-facing services under a “minor” category via an administrative zoning-and-use registration permit, and reserve conditional-use review for “major” home occupations with higher intensity, on-site staffing, storage or customer traffic.
Staff described several existing criteria that would distinguish…
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