The business activity must satisfy the following requirements:
(a) Customer, client, patient, or other traffic shall be restricted to 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
(b) No more than twelve (12) visits to the home-based business shall be allowed per day, except as necessary to operate child day care facilities in accordance with the West Virginia Code; such visits may be addressed in a conditional use permit. A “visit” is 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 the operator’s family, or a 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 two (2) nonresident employees to physically work at the Bed and Breakfast Inn.
(e) The business or commercial activity may not use any equipment or processes that create excessive noise, vibration, glare, fumes, or odors, or any electrical or electronic interference, including interference with radio or television reception detectable in the surrounding neighborhood. Some noise is acceptable during daylight hours for activities such as woodworking, glassblowing, or pottery making, when conducted within an enclosed building.
(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 twenty-five (25%) percent of the gross floor area of the main dwelling, whether located in the main dwelling or located in an accessory structure.
(h) There shall be no outside appearance of a business use, including, but not limited to, parking or lights; however signs, as permitted in Article 1325: Sign Regulations are allowed so long as the signs meet all requirements in that section.
(i) 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.
(j) The business may not involve any illegal activity.
(Passed 7-7-22.)