The county does not require a host to be on-site during stays. However, the bed-and-breakfast home industry is a family-operated use: only members of the family residing on the premises, plus no more than two outside employees, may be engaged in it - implying resident operation of the residential-zone use.
SCC Title 14 home-industry standards provide that 'Only members of the family residing on the premises, and no more than 2 employees outside of the family, may be engaged in the home industry.' There is no separate rule requiring a host or 24/7 local contact to be physically present during each STR booking, unlike some city STR codes. In practice, the residing-family operation requirement and the primary-residence tie mean the residential-zone bed-and-breakfast is host-run. Commercial-zone hotel/motel B&B use has no such family-operation limit.
Operating a residential-zone home-industry B&B with non-resident operators or more than two outside employees breaches the home-industry standards and CUP, and can be enforced by Building and Planning.
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Spokane County itself publishes no countywide lawn-watering schedule. Outdoor watering rules are set by each water purveyor: the City of Spokane and local wa...
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State law (RCW 17.10) requires every Spokane County property owner to eradicate Class A noxious weeds and control designated Class B and C weeds on their lan...
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