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Planning commission weighs three‑tier rewrite of home‑occupation rules; commissioners press staff on tutoring, contractors and firearms
Summary
Staff presented a draft rewrite of the home‑occupation ordinance that creates three levels of home businesses (no‑impact, limited on‑site client activities, and potentially disruptive uses requiring council approval). Commissioners discussed tutoring limits, art studios, contractor staging and whether licensed gunsmithing or pet grooming should be allowed.
The Planning Commission spent the bulk of its June 5 meeting reviewing a staff‑draft overhaul of the city’s home‑occupation ordinance that would replace the existing two‑level system with three tiers to better distinguish low‑impact home‑based professional activity from businesses that generate traffic, equipment, deliveries or noise.
"The one big change is currently now the city says we have two types of home occupation, a level one and a level two. What this is proposing to do is to break that into three levels," Mr. Roberts told the…
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