(a)

Home occupations in residential dwellings are permitted as incidental and secondary to the permitted residential use of the lot, subject to the following requirements:

(1)

Such home occupation shall be conducted entirely within the dwelling unit used as the residence.

(2)

The operator conducting the home occupation shall be the sole entrepreneur. (Special permits approved by the county regional planning commission and the board of appeals could allow for employees who are not residents of the house.)

(3)

The primary use of the dwelling unit shall remain for residential purposes and the operator of the home occupation shall remain a resident in the dwelling unit.

(4)

The home occupation shall be incidental and secondary to the permitted residential use of the lot.

(5)

The home office or business is clearly secondary to the use of the dwelling as a residence and does not change the residential character of the dwelling or the lot in any visible manner.

(6)

The use shall not generate pedestrian or vehicular traffic beyond that normal to the district in which it is located.

(7)

The home office or business occupies less than one-third of the floor area of the dwelling.

(8)

No provision for off-street parking or loading facilities, other than the requirements of the residential district in which the use is located, shall be permitted; and no part of a minimum required yard shall be used for such off-street parking or loading purposes; no additional driveways to serve such home occupation, shall be permitted. The home office or business shall have sufficient off-street parking to accommodate both residential and home business uses.

(9)

No display of goods or external evidence of the home occupation shall be permitted other than one nonilluminated sign, not exceeding three square feet in area, placed so it does not obstruct the view of oncoming traffic.

(10)

That stock located on the premises must be approved by the zoning administrator.

(11)

No equipment or process shall be used in such home occupation which creates noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors or electrical interference, (visually or audibly), outside the dwelling.

(12)

No permitted home occupation shall interfere with the reasonable enjoyment of adjoining property owners.

(b)

Permitted home occupations can include:

(1)

Domestic crafts such as a seamstress, sewing, tailoring, weaving, washing, and ironing, carpentry work, television or radio repair, barbershops (one-chair operation only), beauty shops (one-chair operation only), repair of small household appliances.

(2)

Music and dance instruction.

(3)

Private tutoring.

(4)

Use of premises by a medical or osteopathic physician, surgeon, dentist, podiatrist, or chiropodist, for consultation or emergency treatment, but not for general practice of such profession.

(c)

Home occupation shall not be interpreted to include:

(1)

Automobile repair and tune-up.

(2)

Offices, clinics, welding shops, tourist homes, animal hospitals, kennels.

(3)

The use shall not generate pedestrian or vehicular traffic beyond that normal to the district in which it is located.

(4)

Not more than one room in the dwelling shall be employed for the home occupation, at grade or above grade; or 300 square feet of basement floor area below grade.

(5)

No provision for off-street parking or loading facilities, other than the requirements of the residential district in which the use is located, shall be permitted; and no part of a minimum required yard shall be used for such off-street parking or loading purposes; no additional driveways to serve such home occupation, shall be permitted.

(6)

No display of goods or external evidence of the home occupation shall be permitted other than one attached, non-illuminated sign, not exceeding one square foot in area.

(7)

No stock, in trade or commodities, other than those prepared, produced or created on the premises by the operator of the home occupation, shall be kept or sold on the premises, except television or radio and appliance repair parts and hair grooming products.

(8)

No equipment or process shall be used in such home occupation which creates noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors or electrical interference, (visually or audibly), outside the dwelling.

(9)

No permitted home occupation shall interfere with the reasonable enjoyment of adjoining property owners.

(10)

Tattoo parlors or studios.

(Ord. of 12-4-1973, § 21.0; Res. of 10-8-1996; Res. No. 2013-08-45, 8-15-2013)