(a) Permitted Districts. Home occupations as permitted and regulated by this section shall be permitted in the Agricultural and Residential Zoning Districts. A Home Occupation Permit shall be obtained pursuant to the provisions of this Zoning Code.
(b) Permitted Home Occupations include:
(1) Dressmakers, seamstresses, and tailors.
(2) Artists, sculptors, authors, composers, and teachers or tutors.
(3) Office facilities for architects, accountants, financial planning, investment services, dentists, doctors, insurance agents, lawyers, real estate brokers, sales representative, engineers, professional consulting services, drafting and graphic design services, interior design services, and ministers, priests, rabbis or other clergy.
(4) Day-care with less than six (6) children that do not require a state license to operate.
(5) Beauty and barber services, one (1) chair only.
(6) Data processing, court reporter, stenographer, typing, word processing service, writing, computer programming, telephone answering, switchboard, call forwarding.
(7) Direct sale product distribution (Amway, Avon, Tupperware, etc.), mail order, provided there are no retail sales from site.
(8) Internet sales, trading and information services.
(9) Home cooking and preserving for sale off-site.
(10) Home crafts such as model making, rug weaving, cabinet making or ceramics utilizing a kiln with a capacity of six (6) cubic feet or less.
(11) House cleaning service, laundry, ironing service.
(12) Licensed massage therapist.
(13) Locksmith.
(14) Other similar uses as determined by the Zoning Administrator.
(c) The following uses, by the nature of the investment or operation, have a pronounced tendency once started to rapidly increase beyond the limits permitted for home occupations, and thereby impair the use and value of a residentially zoned area for residence purposes. Therefore, the uses specified below shall not be permitted as home occupations under any circumstances:
(1) Appliance repair.
(2) Automobile or vehicle repair, automobile or vehicle parts sales, automobile or vehicle painting or detailing, and automobile or vehicle washing service, including businesses working at customers homes.
(3) Beauty and barber services, two (2) or more chairs.
(4) Boarding house, bed and breakfast, time share condominium.
(5) Carpentry.
(6) Ceramics utilizing a kiln with a capacity of more than 6 cubic feet.
(7) Churches, religious instruction.
(8) Commercial Lawn Care
(9) Contracting, masonry, plumbing or painting.
(10) Gift shop.
(11) Health salons, gyms, dance studios, aerobic exercise studios.
(12) Limousine service.
(13) Medical or dental office.
(14) Mortician, hearse service.
(15) Palm reading, fortune telling.
(16) Photography studios.
(17) Private clubs.
(18) Rental equipment businesses.
(19) Restaurants, taverns, food preparation.
(20) Retail sales on site.
(21) Small engine repair.
(22) Tow truck services.
(23) Veterinary uses, including care, grooming, or boarding.
(24) Wedding or bridal shops.
(25) Other similar uses as determined by the Zoning Administrator
(d) Standards. In addition to all of the standards applicable to the zoning district in which it is located, no home occupation shall be permitted unless it complies with the following restrictions:
(1) No person or persons shall operate a home occupation or be employed thereunder other than a resident of the premises.
(2) The home occupation shall be conducted entirely within the dwelling, and the use of the dwelling for the home occupation shall be clearly incidental and subordinate to its use for residential purposes by its occupants. Not more than 25% of the gross floor area of any dwelling unit shall be used for a home occupation. There shall be no outdoor storage of equipment or materials used in the home occupation.
(3) There shall be no change in the outside appearance of the building or premises, or other visible evidence of the conduct of such home occupation other than one (1) home occupation sign, if permitted under Section 749 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Troy, Ohio.
(4) There shall be no sale on the premises of commodities not produced as the result of the home occupation. No wholesale, jobbing, or retail business shall be permitted unless it is conducted entirely by mail or telephone and does not involve the receipt, delivery, sale, or storage of merchandise on or from the premises.
(5) No toxic, explosive, flammable, combustible, corrosive, etiologic, radioactive or other restricted materials shall be used or stored on the site in amounts greater than those normally associated with domestic use.
(6) In no case shall a home occupation be open to the public at times earlier than 8:00 a.m. nor later than 10:00 p.m.
(7) No advertisement shall be placed in any media containing the address of the property.
(8) Vehicles associated with the home occupation shall be subject to the following:
A. Not more than one (1) vehicle shall be used for the purposes of the home occupation.
B. Such vehicle shall not be larger than a 3/4-ton truck.
C. Deliveries and/or pickups of goods related to the home occupation shall not be made in vehicles other than the vehicle associated with the home occupation.
D. Such vehicle shall not have any permanent advertising of the home occupation but may have magnetic or other temporarily affixed advertising, provided such advertising is removed at all times the home occupation is not open to the public, as set forth in division (6) of this section.
(9) No traffic, including deliveries, shall be generated by such home occupation in greater volume than would normally be expected in a residential neighborhood, and any need for parking generated by the conduct of such home occupation shall be off-street and not within a required front yard.
(10) Equipment or processes shall not be used in such home occupations which create noise, vibrations, glare, fumes, odors, or electrical interference detectable outside the dwelling. In the case of electrical interference, no equipment or process shall be used which creates visual or audible interference in any radio, television receiver off the premises, or cause fluctuations in voltage off the premises. No mechanical or electrical equipment shall be used except normal domestic or household equipment, adding machines, computers, typewriters, or copying machines.