Home businesses imperiled

If you have a home-based business in the Spokane Valley, you need to start watching what our City Council is attempting to do. Because of a few residents that have a problem with semi-trucks being parked at their homes, and even on their own property, they have gotten the ear of a few of the council members.

An ordinance to ban all vehicles such as semis, camp trailers, motor homes, boats on trailers, service vans/trucks, anything over 22 feet long would be banned not only from the streets but your property. It was voted down twice.

Now, it seems the same council members want to try and get those work trucks out of the neighborhoods by requiring a business license. Many would not be able to qualify for the license. Their next step would be to ban home businesses. All of this because a couple of people can’t get along in a neighborhood.

At what point did we ever give the City Council the power to strip us of our property rights? Maybe never would be the answer. In my neighborhood, there are four or five home businesses. We don’t have signs out, or parking for customers, or work odd hours. We are making a living out of our homes. It’s the American way.

Call City Hall and make your voice be heard. This stuff is on the council agenda right now.

Dan Allison

Spokane Valley