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Tualatin council opens path for Honeybucket to seek zoning change after staff compliance steps
Summary
After staff found Honeybucket's operations fit the city's 'solid waste treatment and recycling' use (not permitted in Light Manufacturing), council gave general consensus to let the business pursue a zoning route — either a plan text amendment to allow conditional use or an applicant-initiated zone change to General Manufacturing — while a voluntary compliance agreement remains in effect.
City staff and the Tualatin City Council spent the second half of Wednesday's work session considering next steps for Honeybucket (Northwest Cascade DBA Honeybucket), a portable restroom service operating on a property zoned Light Manufacturing.
Staff told the council it first became aware of Honeybucket's operations in October 2024 and subsequently completed a code interpretation this year that concluded the business fits the city's "solid waste treatment and recycling" use category— a category not allowed in the Light Manufacturing zone. "If Honeybucket does not leave that location, citations will be issued. Those can be issued daily at $1,000 per day, for the underlying violations of, operating in a non permitted use at this location,"…
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