The business or commercial activity conducted as a home-based business must satisfy the following criteria:
(A) Customer, client, patient, or other traffic shall be restricted to 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
(B) No more than 12 visits to the home-based business shall be allowed per day, except as necessary to operate childcare facilities in accordance with the West Virginia Code; such visits may be addressed in a conditional use permit. A VISIT is defined as a stop at the business premises by one automobile transporting one or more customers, clients, patients, packages/parcels, or other business associates. A VISIT does not include the operator of the business, members of his or her family, or the business employee.
(C) The business or commercial activity shall not change the residential character of the dwelling and shall not detract from the residential character of the neighborhood.
(D) The home-based business shall not employ individuals living outside the dwelling to physically work at the dwelling, except bed and breakfast inns may employ one nonresident employee to physically work at the bed and breakfast inn.
(E) The business or commercial activity may not use any equipment or processes, which create noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors or electrical or electronic interference, including interference with radio or television reception, which is detectable in the surrounding neighborhood.
(F) The business or commercial activity may not generate any solid waste or sewage discharge, in volume or type, which is not normally associated with the use of a dwelling in the neighborhood.
(G) The business activity may not occupy more than 25% percent of the gross floor area of the residence.
(H) The business may not involve any illegal activity.
(I) Any outdoor display or storage of materials, goods, supplies or equipment shall be prohibited, other than the signs.
(J) No traffic shall be generated by such home occupation in greater volumes than would normally be expected in a residential neighborhood, and any need for parking generated by the conduct of such home occupation shall be met by off-street parking.
(Ord. 301, passed 8-18-2022) Penalty, see § 152.999