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BOOK PAGE .CC <br />Commissioner Ginn believed that staff s recommendation concerning no allowance <br />for visits of clients was too restrictive. <br />Chairman Macht reminded everyone that if this becomes a law,,it will need to be <br />enforced. <br />The Chairman opened the public hearing and asked if anyone wished to be heard in <br />this matter. <br />Procter Barber,103618thStreet SW, related that the new buyers of the house across <br />the street have set up an upholstery shop and furniture repair in their garage. The garage <br />door is open all day and the garage is stuffed from floor to ceiling with furniture. He said <br />it is unsightly and downgrades the neighborhood. He reported that customers and delivery <br />trucks are in and out as often as 4 times a day loading and unloading furniture and the sounds <br />of sewing machines and stapling machines go on all day. He was certain the Board was not <br />in favor of this happening in a residential neighborhood and trusted they would right this bad <br />situation. <br />Responding to Commissioner Ginn's inquiry, Director Boling responded that the <br />intent ofthe home occupation ordinance has been applied with no clients and no non-resident <br />employees until the appeal case. Environmental Planning & Code Enforcement Chief Roland <br />M. DeBlois reviews applications for home repair businesses. Artists, sculptors, and home <br />crafts may also have a business within a home, but the idea is that the business *is basically <br />transparent. It is not always easy to precisely legislate that type of business. <br />Mr. DeBlois added that what Mr. Barber had described sounded like a business that <br />could be permitted with a home occupation permit, but at a certain level. It is expected to <br />be small scale, with the garage door closed, not obtrusive, maybe a delivery once every week <br />or two. That generally is witbin the parameters of the current ordinance. Volume and <br />intensity are hard to control and fall under _enforcement. The applicant must initially respond <br />to certain questions and provide a notarized statement indicating the volume ofbusiness they <br />expect; it is reviewed for compliance with what is customarily found in neighborhoods. <br />What Mr. Barber described could be a situation where a permit was issued, but the business <br />became more intense than what was originally indicated in the application. <br />Chairman Macht recalled this concern coming before the City of Vero Beach and the <br />guidelines were that home occupations could occur so long as the general neighbors and <br />April 19,1999 <br />16 <br />