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Highland Council updates business-license and home-occupation rules, allows small in-home daycares with parking plans
Summary
The council adopted overhauled business-license and home-occupation rules to modernize decades-old code, allow in-home daycare and in-home instruction on lots at least 8,000 sq ft with a traffic-and-parking plan, and give staff authority to approve or revoke licenses with council appeal.
Highland City Council on April 21 adopted a consolidated update to the municipal business-license code and the development codes home-occupation rules designed to reflect modern practices and close decades-old gaps.
The council voted 5——0 to approve an ordinance that centralizes home-occupation regulations, clarifies definitions, and adds specific rules for mobile businesses, temporary licenses and penalty flows for delinquency or noncompliance. The amendments make explicit when staff may approve or revoke licenses and preserve a council appeal path.
Rob Patterson, the city attorney, told the council the changes are largely cleanup of a 30-year-old code and…
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