Sec. 17-607 - Home business
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum customer/vendor trips per hour2 trips/hour
The home business shall not generate more than an average of two (2) customer or vendor vehicular round trips per hour
- Maximum employees not residing on premises2 count
The operator of the business may have two (2) employees that do not reside on the premises.
- Maximum home business area in accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure750 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
or no more than seven hundred fifty (750) square feet of an accessory structure.
- Maximum home business as percentage of dwelling floor area30 pct
The home business shall not occupy more than thirty (30) percent of the residential floor area of the dwelling
- Maximum business vehicles parked on premises1 count
Only one (1) vehicle, associated with the home business, except for employee and customer vehicles, may be parked on the premises
Signage
- Maximum sign area4 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Signs shall be permitted and shall not exceed four (4) square feet with no dimension greater than thirty-six (36) inches.
- Maximum sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.5 ft
signs shall not exceed five (5) feet in height
shall be set back at least five (5) feet from all property lines and road rights-of-way.
From the ordinance
The home business shall not occupy more than thirty (30) percent of the residential floor area of the dwelling or no more than seven hundred fifty (750) square feet of an accessory structure.