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Spokane Valley planning commission backs removing home-business fee exemption from zoning code
Summary
The Spokane Valley Planning Commission recommended removing a fee exemption for home-based business permits from the zoning code, directing council to consider retaining any exemptions in the city’s master fee schedule.
SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. — The Spokane Valley Planning Commission on Sept. 11 recommended removing a long-standing home-business permit fee exemption from the city’s zoning code and asked the City Council to consider whether any exemptions should be retained elsewhere in the municipal code.
The commission voted to approve a code text amendment to Section 19.65.180(a) that would delete the specific zoning-code exemption for home-business permit fees and allow fee policy to be handled in the city’s master fee schedule (Title 3). Levi Basener, associate planner for the city, told the commission the proposed change is limited to removing the fee exemption and does not alter other home-business rules.
Basener said, “the proposed amendment today is to act is to remove that home business permit fee exemption and this is the only change proposed…
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