6PM   UPCOUNTRY – This WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30,
Pukalani’s Tavares Community Center
Council’s Planning Committee’s meeting to receive input on Home-Business BillFrom the agenda:

“A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 19, MAUI COUNTY CODE, AND SECTION 3.48.305, MAUI COUNTY CODE, RELATING TO HOME BUSINESSES”.  The purpose of the revised proposed bill is to (1) establish standards and restrictions for the regulation of home businesses; (2) establish home businesses as a permitted use in the residential and rural zoning districts, and as a special use in the agricultural zoning district; and (3) classify parcels upon which a home business is conducted as commercialized residential for real property tax purposes.

Planning Committee Chair Don Couch said the Council is considering legislation to permit and regulate home-based businesses in certain zoning districts.  He said the committee will review and discuss allowable types of home businesses and develop appropriate regulations for particular operations.
 
The public is encouraged to attend.

 For more information, please contact Councilmember Couch’s office at 270-7108 or via e-mail at pc.committee@mauicounty.us

    You may wish to discuss the following issues in your testimony:

• – Should business or address signs be allowed?  required?  or prohibited?
• – Besides family how many employees?  None?  one?  two?
• – Should the main house AND the ohana each be allowed to have a home-business? What affect would that have on your neighborhood?
• – What should be the rules for customer and employee parking?  On the property and off-street?
• – How many customers should be allowed?  per day?  at one time?
• – What should be the hours of operation (if any) for noise making activities (musical instruments, machines, generators)?
• – Even if the County does not issue a permit, should a home-business and the operator be registered with the county for property tax purposes or in case there is a neighbor’s complaint?
• – Should a home-owner continue to get a property tax exemption if they are using the home for commercial activities?
• – Who should enforce this ordinance? Planning Department?  Property Tax office?  Police?
• – Should there be limits on the annual number of “garage sales” allowed on a property?
• – Should the same rules for home-businesses be applied in apartment, residential, rural, and agricultural zones? How should they differ?

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