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Hearing officer recommends Huachuca City zoning change to curb firearms- and explosives-related home businesses
Summary
At a Feb. 19 public hearing, Hearing Officer Dr. Johnson read a proposed amendment to Section 18.100.210(D)(1) that would ban certain firearms- and explosives-related activities from home-based businesses and recommended the change be forwarded to the Town Council for final reading; no public commented.
Hearing Officer Dr. Johnson opened a public hearing Feb. 19 in Huachuca City to present proposed text amendments to Section 18.100.210(D)(1) of the town zoning code and to solicit public comment. "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," he said, and read the draft language for the record.
The proposal, as read into the record, would bar certain activities at residences used as home-based businesses. The hearing officer read the substantive prohibition aloud: "The operation of a home based business involving 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." Dr. Johnson said deletions were highlighted in yellow and additions in red on the handout provided to people reviewing the draft.
Dr. Johnson told the room the public notice had been posted at standard locations and on the town's Facebook page, and that there had been an ongoing citizen review process beginning Feb. 5. He reported that "to this day, no written comments have been submitted" and that no phone-in comments were on file. When the hearing was opened for verbal public input, he noted only town staff were present in the chamber — Town Clerk Brandye Thorpe and Chief of Police Wyatt Barry — and no members of the public came forward; the hearing was then closed.
The hearing officer said he would forward his recommendation to approve the amendment "as written" to the Town Council for the Council's final reading and decision. The Feb. 19 minutes were later certified by Town Clerk Brandye Thorpe and show approval by Mayor Johann R. Wallace on Feb. 26, 2026. The council has not recorded a final vote on the amendment in the hearing minutes; any formal adoption would occur at a subsequent Council meeting.
