Home occupations, such as, but not limited to, a seamstress or a mechanic or the office of an architect, attorney at law, minister or physician and related arts and crafts, are allowed as an accessory use in a residential structure provided that such occupation:
(a) Is customarily carried on in a dwelling unit or in a building or other structure accessory to a dwelling unit;
(b) Is carried on by a member of the family residing in the dwelling unit;
(c) Is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling unit for residential purposes; and
(d) Conforms to the following additional conditions:
(1) The occupation or profession shall be carried on wholly within the principal building or within a building or other structure accessory thereto.
(2) Not more than one person outside the family shall be employed in the home occupation.
(3) There shall be no exterior display, exterior sign (except as permitted in the district regulations), exterior storage of materials or other exterior indication of the home occupation or variation from the residential character of the principal building.
(4) No offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, heat or glare shall be produced.
Before commencement of such use, an application therefor shall be made to the Zoning Inspector, accompanied by the appropriate fee. If, upon examination, he or she finds that such proposed use will conform to the requirements set forth herein, he or she shall issue a permit for such use within thirty days.
(Ord. 2002-45. Passed 8-22-02; Ord. 2018-53. Passed 1-24-19.)