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Lehi resident urges code changes after anonymous complaint, council asks staff to study licensing and zoning split
Summary
A Lehi resident told the City Council that anonymous complaints and inconsistent enforcement left her home-based business vulnerable; staff said they will separate development-code and business-licensing issues and continue working with the resident on a draft code amendment.
Brianne Bextrom, a Lehi resident and small-business owner, told the Lehi City Council on Jan. 14 that an anonymous complaint about her home business left her feeling violated and prompted her to pursue a code amendment to protect other home-based enterprises.
Bextrom said she mailed a notice in November 2024 to more than 500 registered home-occupation holders after receiving an accusation of illegal activity. "Our business was registered and we had a business license laminated and hung on the wall in my office," she said. She said city staff questioned her for weeks and concluded the home occupation could not be made compliant under current code language.
City staff and council members described the issue as two separate problems: the development code that governs uses such as home occupations and the business-licensing process that tracks and renews permits. Kim Struthers (staff) said the draft amendment…
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