In all districts permitting residential dwellings, home occupations shall be permitted, as long as the home occupation is incidental and secondary to the permitted residential use of the lot.
(A) Permitted home occupations include:
(1) Domestic crafts such as seamstress, sewing, tailoring, weaving, washing and ironing, carpentry work, barber shops and beauty shops, repair of small household appliances, and offices used predominantly for personal, as opposed to business use.
(2) Music and dance instruction.
(3) Private tutoring.
(B) A home occupation shall not be interpreted to include:
(1) Automobile repair and tune-up.
(2) Offices, clinics, welding shops, tourist homes, animal hospitals, kennels, television repair shops.
(C) Home occupations requirements:
(1) Such one 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.
(3) The primary use of the dwelling unit shall remain for the 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) No structural additions, enlargements, or exterior alterations changing the residential appearance to a business or commercial appearance shall be permitted.
(6) No additional and separate entrance incongruent with the residential structural design shall be constructed for the purpose of conducting the home occupation.
(7) The use shall not generate pedestrian or vehicular traffic beyond that normal to the district in which it is located.
(8) No more than one room in the dwelling units shall be employed for the home occupation, at grade or above grade; or three hundred square feet of basement floor area below grade.
(9) 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 occupations, shall be permitted.
(10) 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.
(11) 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.
(12) 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 of the dwelling.
(Ord. 443, passed 5-19-86) Penalty, see § 10.99