Home occupations shall not require a zoning permit and may be carried on in a dwelling or accessory building to that dwelling under the following conditions:
(A) Customary home occupations such as instruction in a craft or fine art, cottage industries, specialty catering, professional offices, dress-making, bookkeeping, accounting, real estate and insurance sales and similar gainful employment shall only be permitted.
(B) Home occupations shall only be permitted when carried on by the occupant of the dwelling.
(C) A home occupation shall not be allowed if the essential character of a lot or building within a zoning district (in terms of use, traffic generation, noise, odor, vibration, electrical interference or appearance, including signage) is changed by the home occupation.
(D) A home occupation shall not be allowed that commonly has regularly-scheduled appointments that occur at such a frequency as to be disruptive to neighboring properties.
(E) The area utilized for the home occupation shall not exceed 25% of the floor area of one story of the dwelling whether or not the dwelling or an accessory building is so utilized.
(F) All activities involved in the home occupation (other than parking) shall take place within the dwelling or accessory building.
(G) Professional offices shall be occupied by not more than one professional practitioner with no more than one full-time equivalent employee unless all additional persons employed are members of the family occupying the principal structure.
(H) No retail or other sales shall be permitted on the premises unless they are clearly incidental and directly related to the conduct of the home occupation.
(I) The principal use of the parcel shall be a dwelling and the operator of a home occupation shall make the dwelling unit within which the home occupation is conducted his or her legal and primary place of residence, where all activities such as sleeping, eating, entertaining and other functions and activities normally associated with home life are conducted.
(J) All building, housing, fire and other local or state codes and ordinances shall be adhered to for home occupations.
(Ord. 160, passed 4-21-2022) Penalty, see § 153.999