Proprietor of home-based enterprise appeals to Kelowna council to get a license – Kelowna Information

The proprietor of a home-based enterprise in Kelowna is keen to battle metropolis corridor as a way to receive a enterprise license.

Manjeet Sindu, who has been working a home-based spa in Kelowna since 2014 is interesting to metropolis council after metropolis licensing workers turned down her utility for a enterprise license in her new house resulting from an absence of parking.

Particularly, one parking area.

Based on a workers report supporting the choice, Sidhu moved right into a newly constructed single-family house with secondary suite within the Wilden neighbourhood in December of final yr. The house features a double automobile storage and double broad driveway.

This allows a single parking area for the suite and tandem parking for the principal dwelling. Workers additional state the property’s zoning permits for each a secondary suite and home-based enterprise which might require 4 parking stalls together with one for the home-based enterprise “which can’t at present be accommodated onsite.”

In her letter looking for council’s assist to overturn the choice, Sidhu says whereas she, her husband and tenant all have automobiles, hers is at all times parked within the storage until she is getting provides for the enterprise.

She provides her husband works in West Kelowna and is gone in the course of the hours by which she operates her enterprise (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.).

“This creates two spots on the driveway overtly obtainable for my shoppers to park when coming to the spa,” she writes.

She says the parking provisions throughout the zoning rules require a minimal of 1 and most two parking areas for a home-based enterprise main which she says are clearly being met in the course of the hours she operates the enterprise.

Workers point out the home-based enterprise land use does enable for as much as two shoppers at one time and one worker, including the potential further visitors this might convey to the property is why an extra onsite parking area is required.

The report suggests a number of options together with relocating the enterprise to an applicable location, looking for a variance to decrease the variety of parking areas required to 3 or decommissioning the secondary suite to allow the home-based enterprise land use.