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Council is a pro-business Council, quality issues <br />are equally important and sometimes require Council <br />saying "no." "I believe this is one of those times <br />we should be saying no." <br />Anderson reminded Council that this Ordinance would <br />change the zoning throughout the City in all <br />residential neighborhoods by allowing this use. <br />Carnival stated that it is his opinion that <br />barber/beauty shops do not fit the same category as <br />the other exclusions within the City's current home <br />occupation criteria. Exclusions include automotive, <br />welding and paint shops - those things that are <br />obviously offensive. Using day care centers as an <br />example, Carnival stated that he feels traffic <br />associated with barber/beauty shops would have very <br />little impact on a residential area, much less that <br />the permitted day care centers. Carnival stated <br />that he would support this Ordinance. <br />Mohr closed the pulblic hearing and called for a <br />motion. <br />Carnival moved thatt Ordinance #950 be adopted. <br />Scarpella seconded.. <br />Mohr stated that since he is wearing two hats, he <br />saved his comments for now. Mohr stated that if the <br />issue were strictly what other cities are doing, the <br />changing needs in society of single parent need, the <br />integrity of the applicant and the neighbors signing <br />such a petition in support of this issue, Mohr would <br />then indeed be able' to support this Ordinance. <br />However, Mohr stated that the number one priority of <br />this Council is economic development. Mohr stated <br />that 80$ of economic development is the result of <br />the expansion of e~:fisting businesses. Those <br />existing barber/beauty shops located in <br />commercial/businessc zones may reconsider their <br />location based on rent in the business area. If <br />each could practices within their own home, why pay <br />rent in a business district and perform/conduct a <br />business within a more stringent zoning code. One <br />business depends ors all the other businesses around <br />it because of the ~>robability that people will <br />conduct several transactions at one time. Although <br />Mohr stated that he:~ was very empathetic to the <br />reasons Ms. Tincher initiated in her request for <br />this ordinance change, he feels that the bigger <br />issue involves the issues he stated. Also, Mohr <br />feels that there may be a problem in residential <br />resale should a prospective buyer of a house prefer <br />to not live in a neighborhood where a business is <br />being conducted. Mohr cannot support this Ordinance <br />6 <br />