Owners of the Hurraw! vegan lip-balm business are building a new manufacturing facility in Baker Commons in Whitefish and want to temporarily expand their home-based operation until the new facility is finished in January.

Neil Stuber and Corrie Colbert, who began Hurraw! in their home a few years ago, have asked the city of Whitefish for an after-the-fact conditional-use permit to accommodate the temporary expansion at 103 Dakota Ave.

The Whitefish Planning Board will hold a public hearing Thursday to consider the request.

Whitefish zoning regulations limit home occupation to no more than 25 percent of the gross floor area of the primary residence and limit employees to family members living on the premises plus one nonfamily member. Stuber and Colbert are seeking the permit to allow their three part-time employees to continue to use a portion of their basement until they move into the new facility off Baker Avenue.

The Planning Board has four additional public hearings scheduled for Thursday’s meeting:

q The first hearing is a conditional-use permit request from Marty Beale to develop a tri-plex and professional office at 118 W. Second Street.

q Kevin and Melinda Johnson want to build a guest house at 815 Delrey Road and are asking for a conditional-use permit.

q The city of Whitefish wants to amend the city’s subdivision and zoning regulations to accommodate changes made by the 2013 Legislature. Various legislative bills made changes to subdivision laws. Senate Bill 324, for example, addressed a Montana attorney general opinion issued last year concerning subdivisions for rent or for lease.

The attorney general ruled that the exemption under state law for rentals or leases in subdivision only applies to a single building on a single tract of land and that multiple buildings — including multiple residential buildings for rent or for lease — are subject to subdivision review, according to a Whitefish Planning Department staff report.

“While this determination made some sense for areas of Montana that lacked zoning and other review processes, it made very little sense in Whitefish and other places with zoning and review processes in place,” the report said. “This opinion would have increased permitting time and costs for projects in Whitefish by requiring subdivision review for every condominium, multi-tenant and multi-building project.”

q A final hearing is a request by the city to amend the Whitefish growth policy to incorporate a Parks and Recreation master plan.

The meeting begins at 6 p.m. Thursday at Whitefish City Hall.