§ 1419-17. Home Occupations.

Home occupations are permitted in residential districts, subject to the following regulations:

(a)

Purpose. The purpose of home occupation regulations is to permit residents an opportunity to use their homes as a place of livelihood. While permitting such uses in homes, it is important to protect adjacent residential areas from any adverse impacts caused by activities associated with the home occupation. The limitations in this section are designed to assure compatibility between the home occupation and neighboring properties, while retaining the residential character of the building in which the home occupation is conducted.

(b)

Permitted Home Occupation Uses. Home occupations may not include retail sales and are limited to personal services that can be performed on the premises in oral, written, fine-arts, manual-crafts, home-crafts or graphic-arts forms as well as limited business and professional office activities or other occupations determined by the Zoning Administrator.

(c)

Conditions and Limitations. All permitted home occupations are subject to all of the following conditions and limitations:

(1)

The home occupation including accessory storage is conducted entirely within the dwelling unit or within an accessory building.

(2)

The gross floor area exclusively devoted to the home occupation including accessory storage may not exceed twenty-five percent of the habitable gross floor area of the dwelling unit or 500 square feet, whichever is less.

(3)

Only those persons residing on the premises may be employed, commissioned or engaged in the home occupation.

(4)

Merchandise, supplies or stock in trade may not be sold or displayed on the premises.

(5)

The exterior appearance of the building may not be altered for the purpose of accommodating the home occupation in a manner that is inconsistent with the residential character of the building.

(6)

Materials used in the home occupation may not be stored outside of the principal building or accessory building.

(7)

Goods and materials that serve to identify the home occupation may not be displayed so as to be visible from outside the building.

(8)

A home occupation may not produce noise, odors, vibrations, glare, fumes or electrical interference above those levels normally expected in a residential neighborhood.

(9)

Hazardous or toxic materials may not be used or stored on-site in quantities that could have a potentially significant environmental impact on the property or on the surrounding community. A hazardous or toxic material is one which is subject to the reporting provisions of Section 313 of Subtitle B of the Environmental Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. Section 11023.

(10)

The home occupation may not generate vehicular or pedestrian traffic in greater volume than that normally expected in the residential district in which the home occupation is located.

(Ordained by Ord. No. 15-2004, eff. Feb. 13, 2004; a. Ord. No. 0346-2007, § 10, eff. Oct. 13, 2007; Emer. Ord. No. 141-2015, § 24, eff. July 1, 2015)