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Hearing officer recommends Huachuca City Council adopt zoning change to bar firearms-related home-based businesses
Summary
At a Feb. 19 public hearing, the town hearing officer recommended approval of a change to Section 18.100.210D(1) to prohibit certain firearms- and explosives-related home-based business activities and to align local code with ARS 13-3101; no public comments were submitted.
HUACHUCA CITY, Ariz. — The Town of Huachuca City held a public hearing Feb. 19 on proposed text amendments to Section 18.100.210D(1) of the zoning code aimed at aligning the town’s rules with state law governing firearms-related home-based businesses. Dr. Johnson, the town’s hearing officer, read the proposed language and recommended the Council approve the amendment as written.
Dr. Johnson described the scope of the change and the public-notice process, saying the town posted notice at all required locations and on its Facebook page and opened a citizen review period beginning Feb. 5. He read aloud the revised prohibited-uses text: "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." The proposed wording would explicitly bar those activities from qualifying as permitted home-based businesses.
The hearing officer told the chamber that, "To date, there are no written comments, no phone in comments of any kind has been submitted." When the public comment period was opened, no members of the public entered the Council Chambers; Dr. Johnson identified Town Clerk Brandye Thorpe and Chief of Police Wyatt Barry as the only attendees in the room.
With no public input, Dr. Johnson closed the public hearing and said he would forward his recommendation to the Town Council for final reading. There was no council vote at the hearing. The meeting was then adjourned; the minutes were later approved and attested by Town Clerk Brandye Thorpe and include an approval line by Mayor Johann R. Wallace dated Feb. 26, 2026.
What happens next: The Town Council will consider the hearing officer’s recommendation at a separate meeting for final reading and any possible vote. The public record for this item shows no written or phone-in comments as of the Feb. 19 hearing.
