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.

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