The purpose of this chapter is to permit and regulate home occupations within the City of Golden, where such uses promote the economy, vitality and sustainability of the city in a manner consistent with the protection of the health, safety and general welfare of the current and future residents of Golden. Home occupations are accessory business uses conducted by residents from their dwelling units. Such business uses are incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling unit as a private residence. The prohibited home occupations and the performance standards of this chapter are intended to ensure that home occupation activities do not change the character of properties as residential dwellings or interfere with the reasonable use or enjoyment of surrounding properties.

(Ord. 1847, § 7, 2009)

Home occupation means any use conducted principally within a dwelling unit, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling unit as a private residence and does not change the character thereof.

(Ord. 1847, § 7, 2009; Ord. 1179, exh. A, 1993; Ord. 682, § 1, 1973)

In no event shall any home occupation be interpreted to allow any of the following businesses or commercial activities:

(1)

The onsite display or sale of any article except as may be produced by members of the household residing in the dwelling unit.

(2)

Service, repair, painting, or modification, for compensation or gain, of any motorized vehicles, or parts or accessories for any motorized vehicles, including, but not limited to, motor vehicles, trailers, boats, personal watercraft, recreation vehicles, and snowmobiles. This prohibition shall not apply to work on a vehicle as a hobby, conducted in accordance with the regulations of section 5.07.030.

(3)

Animal hospital or kennel.

(4)

Restaurant.

(5)

Licensed home daycare exceeding the limits set in subsection 18.42.030(2) below.

(6)

Repair of equipment having a combustion engine or the use of any equipment having a combustion engine in the process of conducting any home occupation.

(7)

Medical marijuana centers, medical marijuana-infused product manufacturers, and medical marijuana optional premise cultivation operations, as defined by C.R.S. 12-43.3-104.

(8)

Natural medicine businesses, as defined by C.R.S § 44-50-103(14) and the Golden Natural Medicine Code.

(Ord. No. 2251, § 3, 12-3-2024; Ord. 1883, 2010; Ord. 1847, § 7, 2009; Ord. 1179, exh. A, 1993; Ord. 682, § 1, 1973)

It shall be unlawful to operate a home occupation in violation of any of the following restrictions:

(1)

All parking for the home occupation shall be confined to the garage, driveway, and adjacent street frontage of the property. Parking of vehicles used in the conduct of the home occupation shall be limited to those used by the resident of the dwelling unit and any nonresident employee as a means of daily transportation.

(2)

Licensed home daycare shall consist of providing primarily daytime care for compensation for children from birth to 16 years of age, for up to six children, including in the total any of the provider's own children not attending full day school. In addition, providing primarily daytime care for two additional children of school age before and/or after school hours, including in this total number any of the provider's own school age children under the age of 12, shall also be permitted.

(3)

The home occupation shall be conducted by the person or persons resident in the dwelling unit, may include no more than one nonresident employee, and shall not attract additional employees directly to the dwelling unit containing the home occupation.

(4)

The home occupation shall be conducted so as not to attract more than three customers or clients to the dwelling unit at any one time.

(5)

The home occupation shall be conducted wholly within an enclosed building.

(6)

No outdoor storage shall be permitted.

(7)

No storage or display of goods shall be visible from the street.

(8)

The home occupation and the conduct thereof shall not create noise, vibration, fumes, odors, dust, glare, electronic interference, radiation, or other external effects attributable to the home occupation which would impair the residential character of the neighborhood or impair the reasonable use or enjoyment of other residential properties in the neighborhood.

(Ord. 1847, § 7, 2009; Ord. 1179, exh. A, 1993)