York County Unincorporated

Such home occupation shall not generate traffic, parking, sewage, or water use in excess of that which is normal in the residential neighborhood.

The outside appearance of the building or premises or other evidence of the conduct of such home occupation shall maintain a residential appearance visible from the street or adjacent properties.

Outdoor storage shall not be permitted unless through special use permit.

Any demand for parking generated by the conduct of such home occupation(s) which is in addition to the spaces required for the residential use shall be accommodated off the street in a suitably located and surfaced space. Parking must be ten feet (10') from any property line and where three (3) or more spaces are required they shall be effectively screened and buffered by landscaping from view of adjacent residential properties and the home occupation shall be authorized only by issuance of a special use permit by the board.

Commercial vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of ten thousand (10,000) pounds to sixteen thousand (16,000) pounds, or a length of 21 feet or more, including trailers or other attachments must be kept in a garage or an enclosed and screened storage yard and not visible from the public streets or adjacent properties.

The home occupations below are permitted in all residential districts and shall be allowed one customer/client contact per appointment once per hour at a maximum of five (5) customers/client per day limited to the period between 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday with no customer/client contact on Sunday, or in cases where customer/client contact is not required, such home occupation shall allow for the presence of up to two (2) non-resident employees at any given time: (1) Artists and sculptors. (2) Authors and composers. (3) Dressmakers, seamstresses, tailors. (4) Home crafts such as model making, rug weaving, cabinet making, furniture refinishing, or ceramics. (5) A resident salesperson, sales representative or manufacturer's representative. (6) Resident accountants, architects, photographers, brokers, computer programmers, web designers, online teaching, virtual assistants, electronic device repair, sewing machine repair, consultants, counselors, engineers, lawyers, insurance agents, real estate agents or similar professionals. (7) Telephone answering service. (8) Photography studios. (9) Tutoring. (10) Other activities and uses which the zoning administrator determines can be operated in complete accordance with section 24.1-281 of this chapter and which are not otherwise regulated or prohibited by this chapter or any other provision of law. (b) The below permitted home occupations shall be allowed in all residential districts: (1) A member of the clergy. (2) Day care, pre-school, or nursery for not more than four (4) children under the age of thirteen (13), exclusive of the provider's own children and any children who reside in the home as residential occupancy by a single family.

The home occupations below are permitted in all residential districts and shall be allowed one customer/client contact per appointment once per hour at a maximum of five (5) customers/client per day limited to the period between 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday with no customer/client contact on Sunday, or in cases where customer/client contact is not required, such home occupation shall allow for the presence of up to two (2) non-resident employees at any given time

The below permitted home occupations shall be allowed in all residential districts: (1) A member of the clergy. (2) Day care, pre-school, or nursery for not more than four (4) children under the age of thirteen (13), exclusive of the provider's own children and any children who reside in the home as residential occupancy by a single family.

The board may authorize, by special use permit issued in accordance with all applicable procedural requirements as set forth in article I, the following and materially similar types of home occupations subject to the specified conditions: (a) Home occupations permitted under section 24.1-282 which generate a parking demand for two (2) or more parking spaces. (b) Home occupation(s) with on-premises retail sales, or personal services, or customer/client contact exceeding one customer/client by appointment per hour or more than five customers/clients per day. (1) Uses which may be authorized under this section shall include barber and beauty shops, antique shops, certified and registered medical or health professionals, veterinarian with no kenneling, small engine and equipment repair, bicycle rental, rental of rooms for nontransient use, a day care, pre-school, or nursery school for more than four (4) non-resident children, in-home professional offices with customer or client contact exceeding one customer/client by appointment per hour or more than five customers/clients per day, blacksmith, firearms or ammunition sales, automobile detailing services, and other materially similar activities and land uses involving on-premises retail sales exceeding one per hour, customer contact, and personal services. (2) All public contact related to such use shall be limited to the period between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, unless otherwise specified by the board. (3) Off-street parking shall be provided in accordance with the applicable standards established in article VI for business and commercial uses. Such spaces shall be in addition to those otherwise required for the residential use of the property, and shall be no less than ten feet (10') from any property line, unless on an existing driveway, and shall be effectively screened from view of adjacent properties and street rights-of-way by landscaping supplemented, if necessary, by fencing. (4) The type and extent of items to be displayed, stored or sold, or personal services to be offered on the premises shall be specifically stipulated by the board in authorizing any such use permit. In no case shall the area devoted to sales, storage, display or conduct of such home occupation exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the floor area of the residence or such smaller area as may be stipulated by the board. (c) Small contracting businesses operated as home occupations in the RC, RR and WCI districts. (d) Docking workboats and off-loading seafood as a home occupation in RR and RC districts. (e) Home occupation(s) with non-resident employees. (f) Enlargement or expansion of permitted home occupations. (g) Any commercial or passenger vehicle(s), as defined below, utilized by a home occupation(s) shall be parked on, stored on, or operated on or from the property only by special use permit.

Home occupations permitted under section 24.1-282 which generate a parking demand for two (2) or more parking spaces.

Off-street parking shall be provided in accordance with the applicable standards established in article VI for business and commercial uses. Such spaces shall be in addition to those otherwise required for the residential use of the property, and shall be no less than ten feet (10') from any property line, unless on an existing driveway, and shall be effectively screened from view of adjacent properties and street rights-of-way by landscaping supplemented, if necessary, by fencing.

In no case shall the area devoted to sales, storage, display or conduct of such home occupation exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the floor area of the residence or such smaller area as may be stipulated by the board.

All structures, parking and loading areas, and storage areas associated with such use shall be located at least one hundred feet (100') from any lot line. Such setback and buffer area shall be landscaped and fenced in order to provide immediately a Type 50 transitional buffer.

Not more than two (2) vehicles or pieces of equipment associated with the operation of a business shall be operated from the site or stored, unless a greater number is deemed appropriate and is authorized by the board of supervisors in conjunction with consideration of a special use permit application.

Unless otherwise stipulated by the board in granting a special use permit, the areas covered by all structures used primarily in connection with such uses shall not exceed a total of one thousand five hundred (1,500) square feet.

Unless otherwise stipulated by the board in granting a special use permit, the area covered by any outdoor storage associated with such use shall not exceed a total of one thousand (1,000) square feet.

Outdoor storage of goods, equipment, or materials (other than the workboat itself) shall be limited to a total of one thousand (1,000) square feet and shall not be located in any front or side yard, or within twenty feet (20') of any property line.

Any home occupation may be authorized under this section to include three (3) or more non-resident employees by special use permit approval.

Any commercial or passenger vehicle(s), as defined below, utilized by a home occupation(s) shall be parked on, stored on, or operated on or from the property only by special use permit. Commercial vehicles shall be kept in a garage or an enclosed and screened storage yard and not visible from the public street or adjacent properties.

The following uses shall not be permitted as an on premises accessory home occupations: (a) Automobile repair, servicing, sales, or body work. (b) Funeral chapels, funeral homes, crematoriums. ...