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Planning Commission • Agenda item: 7 8/23/93 Item: Discussion of proposed changes in the home occupation requirements Section 9 - 14.02 Subdivision 25 Explanation/Description: Due to an increase of home occupation requests staff asked the planning firm of Dahlgren, Shardlow and Uban to review the city's home occupation code to see if it is complete enough to meet the city's needs. The results of this review demonstrates some items that may be desirable to add or change in the current ordinance. These are: 1. # 2 on memo -Define "normal residential traffic" to mean a specific number of trips per day. Staff suggests that five or six might be reasonable. (Other cities vary from 4 to 20). 2. #5 on memo -Consider listing specifically permitted uses for home occupations. The current code allows any use that meets the criteria of not disrupting the neighborhood. So far, this has not been a problem, but a list might be useful 3. #6 on memo - Currently a proposed home occupation that doesn't meet the requirements of the code (essentially not affecting the character of the neighborhood) may apply for a conditional use permit. The staff strongly recommends changing this. Staff recommends that this procedure be replaced with the variance procedure for the following reasons: • The C.U.P. leaves a very grey area for denial of a home occupation when the home occupation doesn't meet the requirements that assure that it won't adversely impact the residential character of the neighborhood. It also puts the staff in a position of defining conditions to attach to the C.U.P. because the code does not define conditions. These conditions may or may not adequately • protect the residential character.