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..... Franklin: This ordinance is companion to the Massage Parlor Regulation revision in that revising the massage parlor regulations in the City we exempted a use that is classically precluded from Home Occupations in residential area. We felt it prudent to recommend that massage therapist/massage therapist business be excluded specifically from the home occupations as are medical and dental clinics; beauty and barber shop/parlors. There is the potential that these uses would generate additional traffic and otherwise adversely affect the neighborhood, as would medical practices and or personal service professions. Therefore, the result if you should pass it would be that massage therapists who are accredited and could get a business license would operate in commercial areas. Mayor Fauson called for public comments. steven L. Jackson, Colorado Chapter of the AMTA, 121 So. Madison Street #B, Denver, Colorado Jackson: I've been involved in this field of massage therapy for about six years and I have never really experienced a situation where someone who had a home occupation generated a lot of traffic in a particular neighborhood. Usually in a home occupation you're limited to one therapist in each home and they can only work on one person at a time, which could generate at most two cars in the driveway at any particular time. I don't see where having a massage therapy as a home occupation would change the traffic pattern in the residential area. I read some of the other occupations and noticed that music and other types of instruction would be limited to no more than four students at a time. I think a clause similar to that put into the ordinance regarding massage therapy would be appropriate. Many people prefer coming to a more subdued location; a more relaxed atmosphere rather than a business office. 6