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Show Issue VII THE OGDEN VALLEY NEWS January 15, 2005 “DE-JUNK-IFICATION” By Jennifer Duke, Do you ever feel like a bomb went off in your house, and you are left to clean up all of the debris? As we begin the New Year with a bang of confetti and silly string, some of us may begin thinking about our New Year’s resolutions while others of us are beginning to think about spring being just around the corner. Like mad scientists on a mission, we arm ourselves with goggles, shower caps, rubber cloves, scrub brushes, chemicals, Lysol, and cleaning rags. With spring just around the bend, our minds may jump to the dust bunny collections under the rug, mountains of dirty laundry, dust particle collections on the bookcases, and cobwebs in the basement. Although these are typical springcleaning woes, there may be bigger issues at hand that we need to worry about when spring-cleaning is concerned. One of these big issues is the collection of collectibles. We’ve just ended the Christmas collection season, which makes me think back to the many previous collections that we had begun in our home. As a child, my younger sister found a grand new hobby. She began a grasshopper collection in our house. Hoppers were bounding right and left and were leaping 20 times the length of their own bodies. ers were hopping all over our house and my mother was hopping mad. The living room was filled with the many heads, legs, thoraxes, wings, abdomens, and antennae of these great green insects. My mother was smart. She knew that can a single grasshopper could cause millions of dollars in crop damage and destroy entire crops of corn, alfalfa, clover, and one living room in a single bound. She also knew that grasshoppers try to escape from their enemies by jumping up, flying away, and camouflaging themselves by hiding among plants, couches, desks, and by hopping into tall grass. Next to the shoe, my mother was one of the grasshopper’s greatest enemies. She knew that grasshoppers were smart little critters, and she did the only reasonable thing that she could think of to rid our house of these bounding beasts. ey My sister had given each hopper a name, and my mother was tempted to hire an exterminator to rid our house of these green “collectibles,” which to her had only one name that spelled “T-R-O-U-B-L-E.” My mother knew that my younger sister was the only person who could reason with the hoppers because my younger sister had formed a special bond with them by giving them each a name. She gave my younger sister a choice: either the grasshoppers would go or my mother would. Luckily, my sister complied with my mother’s request. The hoppers soon disappeared. Another collection that we began in our house was the collection of stuffed animals. very Christmas, we would each receive anew stuffed animal until the stuffed animals began stuffing up our rooms, which were already filled with stuff. We had begun collecting everything from Pink Giraffes with Stripes to Orange and White Zebras with spots and horns. The mountain of bears, unicorns, gorillas, Popples, monkeys, owls, anteaters, care bears, rainbow bright dolls, Trolls, Smurfs, lions, hippos, and Alfs began to climb. The mound of animals suddenly became slightly taller than Magic Mountain at Disney Land. While each animal was filled with fluff, the animals were adding fluff to our already fluffy rooms. The stuffed animals simply had to go! So what do we do to combat our springcleaning woes? Do we begin by buying five more books on how to live the “simple life” or order a new magazine subscription to a publication with “housekeeping” in the name? NO! As the magazines and books pile up, so do our piles and collections of junk, and our spring-cleaning load triples. We need to work on improving the quality of life rather than the quantity of it. We need to lessen and decrease the amount of junk in our lives rather than trying to increase it. Simple phrases can teach a lot. We need to keep the following words in mind: “All that glitters is not gold.” As we’ve leapt into the New Year, I am setting a New Year’s resolution for myself that will help me to combat my spring-cleaning woes, and am resolving to stop collecting collections. Facials ~ Massage Waxing A Change of Face Page 3 Weber County Planner’s Corner The Weber County Zoning Ordinance, Chapter 34, provides for the establishment of Home Occupations. The intent is to allow persons residing in a dwelling, in a residential or agricultural area, to operate a home business that will not cause a “commercial” appearance, noise, dust, disturbance of the peace and quiet, or additional traffic in the neighborhood. The business must take place inside the residence in no more than a 400 square foot area, with no exterior signs of the business, and no storage in either an attached or detached garage or storage building. A Home Occupation is allowed in a single family dwelling. For businesses with no customers coming to the house, only a Home Occupation Business License is required. There can be no employees, work is limited to the residents of the dwelling, and the business may only be a part time operation. Some examples are: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Home Occupations requiring Conditional Use Permit Applications are reviewed by the Penning Sa on a case by case basis h of the conditioned business uses sine into a residential area is unique. Conditions for the use may include, but are not limited to, hours of operation, numbers of visiting clientele, and additional parking. Once a Conditional Use Permit has been eee by the pe Commission, there appeals period before the Conditional Use Permit can be issued and the applicant can apply for a Home Occupation Business License. or questions, further information, or applications, call (801)399-8791 or 399-8794 to speak to a Weber County planning staff member. e full text of the Zoning Ordinance governing Home Occupation can be accessed by computer at the County Website at www1.co.weber.ut.us, then go to County Departments, then to Planning Commission, then to Ordinances. Click on Zoning Ordinance and go to Chapter 34, Home Occupation. The submittal requirements and process for a Conditional Use Permit can be found in Chapter 35 of the Zoning Ordinance. An e-mail, mail order or telephone order office An accounting or tax service (no visiting clientele Computer information service Making small hand-crafts to sell off-site of the residence A Home Occupation with visiting clientele, or customers, is considered on a case by case basis by applying for a Conditional Use Permit prior to issuance of a Business License. Some examples are: ~ ~ ~ more than two stations on the premises Child day care of not more than eight (8) children, including the care giver’s children under six (6) years of age, with an exemption from the 400 square foot limitation Accounting or tax service with visiting clientele p Volume XI_ Group instruction or motivational meetings as a forum for sales presentations held not more than once every month Musical instrument or dance instruction Barber or beautician services with not Please Note; This information was provided courtesy of the Weber County Planning Staff: Have you filled out a survey for the Recreation Element of the Ogden Valley General Plan that is currently being developed? If not, please take the time to stop by the Ogden Valley Library or go online at www.envisionutah.org to provide your views for the Valley’s future. Valentine's Day Dimmer Skin Care and Bodyworks Now located at the former Ogden Valley Clinic 2595 N. 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