Before

Coweta County can pass an ordinance governing home

occupations, it first has to determine what a home

business is.

That's the

word from Coweta County Commission chairman Vernon

"Mutt" Hunter, who blasted the latest draft of

a home occupation ordinance.

"The

business should be in the home and only run by family

members. That's the way it's been for years," he

said.

Hunter took

exception to a new classification called rural home

occupation. The new category would require a 10-acre

minimum lot, but allow two employees other than family

members and allow such businesses as auto repair, truck

services and veterinary services.

"You

can have an industrial park on 10 acres," Hunter

said.

Another

area of concern was allowing contractors for trades such

as plumbing, painting electrical work under the home

business ordinance.

County

attorney Mitch Powell pointed out that many of these

businesses use their trucks as an office and only use the

home address to get mail.

Commissioner

Robert Wood said home businesses should be operated in

the home and not at various locales around the county. He

suggested the county come up with another category to

license these businessmen.

The

ordinance was started after commissioners heard a report

about a contractor who was parking several work vehicles

in a home in one of the county's subdivisions.

Hunter

suggested the county should work on defining terms before

imposing an ordinance. The commissioners agreed to table

the item and Powell said he would bring it back to the

board in mid-May.