Uses
Permitted by right7
- Art and craft work
- Barber shops, beauty salons, and massage establishments
- Cottage food operations
- Electronic commerce and computer programming
- Office-only uses
- One-on-one art, music, and similar fine art related lessons
- Tailors, sewing
Extracted standards
13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
The home occupation shall be clearly secondary to the full-time use of the property as a residence.
- Business tax certificate required
A home occupation shall require a Town business tax certificate.
- Employees limited to residents
A home occupation shall have no employees working on the site of the home occupation other than the full-time residents of the dwelling
- Location within main residence
The home occupation activities shall be contained entirely within the main residence.
- Motor vehicles
There shall be no motor vehicle used or kept on the premises, except residents' passenger vehicles, and one commercially licensed automobile, pickup truck, or van.
- No off-site effects
No home occupation activity shall create dust, electrical interference, fumes, gas, glare, light, noise, odor, solid waste, smoke, toxic/hazardous materials, vibration, or other hazards or nuisances
- No outdoor storage
There shall be no window display or outdoor storage or display of equipment, materials, or supplies associated with a home occupation.
- Parking
The conduct of the home occupation shall not interfere with the maintenance of the required parking.
- Safety
The use shall not employ the storage of explosive, flammable, or hazardous materials beyond those normally associated with a residential use.
Signs advertising a home occupation are prohibited consistent with Chapter 17.48.
- Traffic
The home occupation shall not generate pedestrian or vehicular traffic beyond that normal to the neighborhood
- Utility service modification
The home occupation use shall not have utility service modifications, other than those required for normal residential use.
- No visibility from public right-of-way
The use shall not require any modification to the structure not customarily found in a dwelling, nor shall the home occupation activity or storage of materials be visible from a public right-of-way or from neighboring residential properties.
From the ordinance
The following standards for home occupations are intended to provide reasonable opportunities for employment within the home that are incidental to and compatible with surrounding residential uses