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Hearing officer recommends Huachuca City amend zoning to bar home-based businesses tied to explosives or prohibited weapons
Summary
Huachuca City held a Feb. 19, 2026 public hearing on a proposed amendment to Section 18.100.210 D(1) to align the town zoning code with Arizona law; the hearing officer recommended approval and forwarded the item to the Town Council for final reading. No public comments were received.
Huachuca City Hearing Officer Dr. Johnson opened a public hearing Feb. 19 to present a proposed amendment to Section 18.100.210 D(1) of the town zoning code intended to align local rules with state law on firearms-related home-based businesses. He said the town posted notice on its Facebook page, published notice in the newspaper and conducted a citizen review process beginning Feb. 5. "The amendment is necessary to align the town code section 18.100.210 D(1) with state law concerning firearm related home based businesses and to further clarify what is prohibited," Dr. Johnson said.
Dr. Johnson read the replacement language aloud during the hearing. The proposed text would prohibit "the sale, mail order, trade, manufacture, display, storage or repair of any sort of explosive or improvised explosive device, and or prohibited weapons, as defined under ARS Section 13-3101" as a home-based business use. He told the chamber that, to date, there were no written or phone-in comments submitted on the proposal and that no members of the public were present to offer verbal comments.
After the reading and the opportunity for public input, Dr. Johnson closed the hearing and announced his recommendation: "It is my recommendation to approve the amendment as written. This will be sent on to the Council for them to make the final reading," he said. The public hearing minutes record that the item will be forwarded to the Town Council for the council's final review and decision. The hearing was adjourned the same evening; the minutes show they were later approved by Mayor Johann R. Wallace on Feb. 26, 2026, and certified by Town Clerk Brandye Thorpe.
The amendment references state statute ARS Section 13-3101 for the definition of "prohibited weapons." No formal council vote on the amendment is recorded in these hearing minutes; the hearing officer's recommendation is the formal action taken at this stage and the council is scheduled to consider the item at a later meeting.
