Sec. 34-933, 34-934
Uses
Prohibited17
- Vehicle or boat body work and/or painting
- Equipment or vehicle rental
- Seafood or bait sales
- Furniture sales
- Funeral director, mortuary or undertaker
- Laboratory shop
- Principal medical or dental office
- Private clubs
- Restaurants
- Animal hospitals
- Commercial stables
- Commercial kennels
- Antique shops
- Gun shops, commercial sale of firearms
- Bed and breakfast
- Fortune-teller, including a clairvoyant, a practitioner of palmistry, a phrenologist, a faith healer, a star analyst, a handwriting analyst who attempts to predict the future or any other person who attempts to predict the future
- Tattoo parlors
Extracted standards
15 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Noise
- Noise limit
No equipment or process shall be used in a home occupation that creates noise in excess of the requirements set forth in the Sussex County Noise Ordinance.
Other
- All permits required
All state, federal and local licenses and/or permits shall be obtained prior to commencing such home occupation.
- Business license required
No person shall conduct a home occupation without obtaining the appropriate business license required by law and issued by the Sussex County Commissioner of Revenue.
- Commercial delivery prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
The home occupation shall not involve the commercial delivery of materials or products to or from the premises. This excludes delivery by the United States Postal Service, Federal Express (FEDEX), United Parcel Service (UPS) or similar delivery services customarily found in residential areas.
- Hazardous materials prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
No toxic, explosive, radioactive, or other hazardous materials shall be used in conjunction with the home occupation; nor shall such materials be sold or stored on the site.
- Maximum floor area for home occupationHome occupationA business run from a dwelling, permitted so long as it stays subordinate to living there.25 pct
The maximum floor area devoted to home occupations shall not exceed 25 percent of the finished floor area of the dwelling unit.
- No adverse impact
No activity in conjunction with a home occupation shall be conducted that adversely impacts or disturbs adjoining property owners.
- Outside storage prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
There shall be no outside storage of goods, products, equipment, excluding motor vehicles as permitted by this article, or other materials associated with the home occupation as indicated herein.
- Permit non-transferable
Home occupation permits shall be unique to the applicant and location and shall not be assigned or transferred to any other person or location.
- Residential character required
No dwelling or structure shall be altered, occupied, or used in a manner, which would cause the premises to differ from a character consistent with a residential use.
- Traffic consistency
The type and volume of traffic generated by a home occupation shall be consistent with the traffic generation characteristics of other dwellings in the area.
- Utility demand limit
The home occupation shall not increase demand on water, sewer, or garbage collection services to the extent that the combined demand for the dwelling and home occupation is significantly more than is normal to the use of the property for residential purposes.
Parking
Off street parking shall be provided as appropriate for the specific nature of the home occupation.
Signage
- Maximum number of signs1 count
Only one sign shall be permitted regardless of the number of home occupations
- Sign setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from road10 ft
must be setback ten feet from the road as measured from the front property line.
From the ordinance
The following uses shall be prohibited as home occupations: ... (Sec. 34-933). General standards: max floor area 25% of finished floor area, sign setback 10 ft, etc. (Sec. 34-934).