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spaces in Roseville. My husband's engineering business is in Shoreview. We pay dl110st $4,000 annual personal property taxes. My business has a Federal Tax 10 number and we pay all federal taxes, state taxes, unemployment insurance on the people who work for me - including outside sales people. We have both business and homeowners insurance policies that give us excellent coverage for any possibilities. My business is a member of the Suburban Chamber of Commerce, and the Better Business Bureau. We are respected members of the business community in the Twin Cities area. We should not be penalized because my business is in two rooms rather than one - or because we have employees who come to work here daily. I appreciate that you are interested to have my input as to why I feel this code discriminates unfairly against a business such as mine and I sincerely hope you will be able to change it. To sum it up: Whereas my small business may not conform to the letter of the code - it certainly does comply with what I believe should be the intent of the code - we create no nuisance, noise, pollution, or excessive traffic. Home based businesses need to judged on the impact on the neighborhood - do they cause concern such as pollution, noise, excessive traffic or any nuisance. Beyond that, the City needs to find a way to judge any exceptions on the individuality ofthe business and the complaint or concern that any neighbors might have. Further, any complaintent should have to express hislher complaint in those terms - and be prepared to give evidence and identify themselves if needed. If the person who brings the complaint is not directly involved with the reason for the complaint - their reason needs to be even stronger, and very well defined, as to why they are filing the complaint. (It is difficult to believe that any totally unidentified, and perhaps unrelated-to-the- problem-person, can in a fit of anger or jealousy, convince the City to move strongly against people who have lived and operated businesses in a particular neighborhood for many years!) I think you will agree with me that this 40 year old code does not really address the needs of small business people today, as more and more home based businesses make their way into the news. Many of these businesses have a very positive and significant impact on their communities and even on their neighborhood. (In our case, those few neighbors who even know we have a business here are grateful that there is some traffic here during the day - we've never had a robbery in our neighborhood. Our office person takes deliveries for neighbors, takes in mail for vacationers, helps drive someone whose car had failed to start, and our adjacent neighbors always know she is here and will help them, if they have a problem. Most more distant neighbors have also lived on our street for a long time and probably don't know I have a business here now, but many of them worked for our small businesses in the past. We're very very confident they would not have called you - as we create no nuisance, there would be no reason to call.) Perhaps due to the tremendous leap in electronic communication, many corporate business workers as well as self-employed people work from their homes. Today, almost everyone knows (and/or deals with) one or more home based businesses - whether it might be carpet 2