(a) A store, trade or business shall not be permitted as an accessory use, except that a home occupation may be carried on in a dwelling or apartment.
(b) As used in this section, "home occupation" means an activity in a residence, such as dressmaking, preserving, home cooking and a professional occupation of a resident of the premises, subject to the limitations of this section.
(c) Any occupation, activity and/or use is hereby prohibited, and no occupation, activity or use shall be construed to be permitted or included within the terms "home occupation," "home industry" and "accessory use," when such occupation, activity and/or use:
(1) Is injurious;
(2) Is noxious, offensive or detrimental to the neighborhood;
(3) Is carried on by persons that are not residents of the dwelling on the premises;
(4) Generates pedestrian or automobile traffic of clients or associates that is not normal to a residential district;
(5) Involves the use of or occupies any other space or any other building, besides the main building, or requires the use of more than ten percent of the gross floor area of the residence;
(6) Involves the use or storage of material or equipment not normally associated with the residential household;
(7) Involves the sale of commodities on the premises or the sale of a product not raised on the premises;
(8) Involves any display that will indicate from the exterior that the building is being utilized for any purpose other than that of a dwelling, or involves the use of any sign;
(9) Involves any automobile dismantling or any motor vehicle repair work with vehicular storage on the premises and the streets beyond those owned and operated by the residents of the premises;
(10) Involves any treatment, care, boarding or lodging of persons, except those of one's own family and two other persons who are to live in a familial setting in a single housekeeping unit;
(11) Involves a use as a funeral home, mortuary or undertaking establishment, laundry, dry cleaning or clothes pressing establishment, convalescing or nursing home, tourist home, massage parlor, barber shop, beauty parlor or similar establishment;
(12) Involves the alteration of the interior or exterior of the premises so as not to change the residential character; or
(13) Violates any restrictions applying to accessory uses in residential districts, or involves any other occupation, use or activity that is excluded, prohibited or otherwise not permitted in this section or that would substantially change the character of the residential district.
(d) In a U-1, U-2 or U-3 District, a private driveway or walk used for access to a lower class use shall, in no case, be permitted as an accessory use.
(Ord. 1985-39. Passed 1-27-86; Ord. 1986-8. Passed 5-12-86.)