The Powder Springs City Council voted 4-1 Monday to restrict personal services to light or heavy industrial areas.
“I have great concern about these almost 48 items on this list of personal services. We’re basically telling these businesses not to come to Powder Springs by putting them in industrial areas. I think we’re running entrepreneurs away,” Councilman Al Thurman said, explaining his dissenting vote.
“We welcome the businesses, but every business has its proper zoning,” Mayor Patricia Vaughn said.
The review began this summer, following an inquiry about opening an escort service in the city, Interim City Manager Pam Conner said at that time.
Applicants would have to request special use approval of the city council, and these personal services can appeal to the city council, Conner added Monday.
The council’s six-month moratorium on personal services ends in January when the council is expected to review a “Table of Permitted Uses.”
Among the personal services are astrology, bail bonding, bondsperson, bootblack parlors, check room, coin-operated locker rentals, comfort station operation, concession operators for pay telephone equipment and photographic machines, concierge, credit card notification, dating, discount buying, fortune telling, numerology, palm reading, phrenology, porter, psychic, rest room operation, shoeshine parlors, shoeshine, social escort and social introduction.
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