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I I I Council Mi nutes January 10, 1984 Harcus feels that the major rezoning has received a lot of publicity through the newspapers. 5 Ayes - 0 Nayes. Motion Carried City Planner reviewed the staff report concerning the zoning code amendment regarding the Home Occupation Ordinance. This amendment specifically defines require- ments for home occupations. Harcus indicated that the present ordinance is difficult to enforce consistently and these changes will help the staff. Janecek asked how this amended ordinance would affect a home occupation, such as Amway, where there could be a heavy amount of traffic. City Planner responded that in that type of business, the primary goal was to get others to sell and that whatever type of traffic that might generate would be incidental to the occupation. City Planner mentioned that there was no listing of pro- hibited uses. The Planning Commission attempted to allow a home occupation to exist as long as it retained the character of a residential neighborhood and wouldn't affect anyone else. Blomquist addressed the limit of employees; perhaps a clerical employee would be needed from time to time. City Planner replied that historical enforcement is by complaints of neighboring residents. Benke suggested that the limit of employees may be some- thing that should be looked at before the next reading. Blomquist would prefer to see the restriction of employees removed. Schmidt has no problem with family businesses if it's SOlely benefiting the people residing on the premises and he could accept the tolerance of having cars coming into a neighborhood if it benefits the family. Schmidt doesn't see how staff and police can limit/control the traffic in a neighborhood. Blomquist stated we're favoring large family units and hurting small family units and it would be hard to control the situation by IItraffic." Schmidt suggested using the tenn "administrative" with regard to non-family employees and not, perhaps, lIoperat- ingll employees. ,',' ""~>:=I~:<,~:'<>i,~~',.: "<'~~~'':'<~.dt.jfe.'M,:::t':, ';~:i',;;. ~>'i . ;.,- -,~';':", ",~';:"",-:,,,,, :~:';':';'';;I'':''~',~~:~~~;'l1'~.\:''''~~I~'1'/f'~:~l<\!t': "-I'\"":"~", "i'::\,\''';~' Page Seven Zoning Code Amendment, Home Occupation Ordinance Report #84-9 "', itt.',,; '~: ",.,~