Garage & Henry Ford

Dear Mayor and Council Members,
First a little history on Henry Ford's Garage / Shed.
Any Ford enthusiast/historian worth his Ford script knows that 58 Bagley Avenue was the place where Henry Ford built his first car, the Quadricycle.   The house was actually a duplex or double house,  with 58 Bagley on the left side, with the garage / shed, in the back yard.  See pic of the front of the duplex, and the pic of the garage/shed in the backyard, with the duplex in the background.    Henry Ford lived here for several years, paying $25 per month rent.  The area was residential.

What happened to 58 Bagley Ave.? Did he have it moved to Greenfield Village like he did with his birthplace? Partially. Here's how it happened. The house was moved in the early 1920s to a new location around the corner from it's former lot to make room for the Michigan Theater that now covers the site in downtown Detroit. It's understood that the famous shed where he built the car was torn down. 

The building, once moved, was treated to a new facade and encompassed a coffee/tea house.  See the pic.

Now the shed you see in Greenfield Village was actually new construction using brick from the old Bagley Ave. House.   (See the patched area on the side of the Tea house?)
Henry Ford, and many other notable businesses have gotten their start in garages.  You have heard this before, from me, from others, from recent TV ads.    An individual has the right to be creative in his own garage, to start a business, notice the word start, not go 'big time' , and run a small operation in their garage if it is 'passive'.  Passive does not mean low dollars, it means low visual exposure in the neighborhood.  I sell very expensive antique auto parts via Ebay as a hobby.  (I manufacture auto parts for a living).    Need a Duesenberg exhaust gasket for $100, a Packard headlight for $3200, I'm your man.  Small expensive stuff that goes all over the world, thanks to computers.  Others with Ebay do the same with garage sale treasures, again, a hobby business but one that makes a 'healthy' profit to get a few 'extras'.  Hundreds, if not thousands, of Dearborn residents operate hobby businesses.  i can think of 15 just on my street!
Your proposed law makes not just me, but all of us who have money making hobbies law breakers.  The stuff I sell each month wouldn't fit in a laundry basket so it's not about space.  The Home Occupation zoning does not address the issue and is vague.   This is about Garages.   Your law states "No garage shall be used for any commercial purpose whatsoever."  "Storage of materials used in an enterprise is not allowed".  Henry Ford would be doing 'flip flops' in his grave if he read that.  I'm surprised the American Civil Liberties Union isn't upset.  
Sure, I and others will continue selling as before, after this proposal becomes law, nothing would probably change.   Dearborn enforcement has better things to do than monitor incidental garage use, (ie, Is he renting/leasing that garage space to a neighbor?)  Your proposed law states: "No garage may be leased/rented to any person separately from the owner or tenant of the principal residence".   Good luck enforcing that law.........
So why pass laws that you can't enforce anyway?  That the ACLU will possibly challenge?  Laws that discourages first time business owners from even contemplating the attempt?
Don't worry.  The residents that want to really start a business will ignore the garage storage use law as it unreasonably restricts the free use of one's property.   No doubt there was a code against scaring horses that Henry Ford ignored as well when he drove his first car.  
We can play the 'IF' game. If the city is passive on enforcement, nothing will change.  If the city is proactive on enforcement, the courts will decide.  That policy discriminates against the poor.    
What you should tack onto  (h) and (i) somewhere is the phrase,  "if it impedes car storage".
That is the intent of the entire law change, to increase and promote car storage,  correct?   Well, then insert car language to that effect, instead of restricting small business.As written, the sections on garage storage and use are ambiguous, and will be ignored.

Agree or disagree?  Tuesday , at the Dearborn City Town Hall, 
the council will do the final reading, and, unless anyone disagrees, the garage ordinance becomes law.  Henry Ford, in my opinion, deserves better.