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Home Occupations

Title 9, Chapter 92.20

Definition: Home Occupation - A business activity customarily carried on in the home by a member of the occupant's family without structural alterations in the building or any of its rooms, without the installation or outside storage of any machinery, equipment or materials other than that customary to the normal household operations, without the employment of persons not residing in the home, without the use of a sign to advertise the occupation, and which does not cause the generation of additional traffic in the street.

Home occupations shall be permitted in all residential zones, provided the home occupation is clearly and obviously subordinate to the main use or dwelling unit for residential purposes.  Home occupations shall be conducted wholly within the primary structure on the premises.  It is a nuisance and shall be deemed unlawful for any person to maintain a home occupation in violation of the following provisions:

1. The home occupation shall not exceed 15 percent of the floor area of the primary structure.
2. No persons other than those living on site or those related by blood, marriage or adoption shall report to work at the home occupation.
3. Inventory and supplies shall not occupy more than 50 percent of the area permitted to be used as a home occupation.
4. There shall be no exterior display of storage of goods, machinery, equipment or materials other than that customary to normal household operations on said premises.
5. Home occupations involving beauty shops, barbershops, nails shops, automotive repair shops are prohibited.
6. Sales and services to patrons shall be arranged by appointment and scheduled so that not more than two patron vehicles are on the premises, street or alley at the same time.
7. No signs shall be used to advertise the home occupation.
8. No alterations of the residential appearance of the property for business purposes, such as the creation of a separate entrance, shall be allowed.

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