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Clinton shifts tenant-merchant permitting to planning and limits itinerant merchants to nonresidential zones
Summary
Council adopted two related text amendments to city code: the first moves tenant-merchant permitting from the police department to the planning department; the second restricts itinerant merchants to nonresidential zoning districts and treats repeated yard sales as itinerant activity.
Clinton City Council voted to move tenant-merchant permitting from the Clinton Police Department to the Planning Department and to restrict itinerant merchants to nonresidential zoning districts, the council announced during its meeting.
The changes were presented during a public hearing on a text amendment that city staff described as "housekeeping." Planning Department staff said the police department no longer performs tenant-merchant permitting or background checks in the current statewide context, and the responsibility is being transferred to planning.
Council also considered a companion amendment to the zoning code that would allow itinerant merchants only in office/institution (O&I), neighborhood shopping (NS), highway commercial and industrial zones. Under the new rule, individuals running sales more than four times a year in residential areas would be treated as tenant or itinerant merchants and would need permits to operate in commercial districts.
"Previously, with the police department, they would do background checks, and they're not allowed to do that anymore," a Planning Department staff member said during the hearing.
Council closed the public hearing and adopted the amendments; staff were instructed that the zoning amendment is effective immediately.
The council did not specify a numeric vote tally in the record beyond the motion and an affirmative "Aye" from members present.
