Board of Trustees Approves Dog Grooming Business

I want to try to document how home businesses are being accepted by local governments so you’ll see these as they cross my virtual desk. Notice the mayoral monkey business that went on when you read the whole article.

North Pekin IL has approved a home based dog grooming business according to the Pekin Times.

NORTH PEKIN – A woman hoping to run a business from her home can do so now, thanks to the North Pekin Board of Trustees.

The trustees voted in favor of allowing North Pekin resident Stacey Rhoades to obtain a special use permit which allows her to run a dog grooming business in her home.

Rhoades, of 371 Forest Drive in North Pekin, has been grooming dogs for about the last 10 years. She used to run her business from a rented store, but stopped because rent ate up most of the profits.

As a single mother, she hoped to continue supporting herself and her daughter by grooming dogs in her garage.

In May she applied for a special use permit. Village President Barb Kaiser attended the Zoning and Planning Commission meeting where the permit was approved. Kaiser told the Pekin Daily Times in September that she attended as a citizen in the audience, not as mayor.

At that meeting, Kaiser opposed the special use permit.

Kaiser – who lives next door to Rhoades – brought a real estate agent along and claimed having a home business located next door would drop her property value.

The village’s Zoning and Planning Commission approved the special use permit….

The business is to be for dog grooming only. No signs are allowed in the yard. Rhoades has 30 days to construct a privacy fence. No more than four customers’ animals are allowed on the premises at any one time and hours of operation are 8 a.m. until 8 p.m.