Questions to Ask to Determine
if a Home Occupation is Allowed
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| These questions are simply a guide. They are not a substitute for the
regulations. (Any "no" answers to the questions below mean that you
would not have a permitted home occupation.) |
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Is your property in a Residential District? (Other regulations apply to
non-residential districts.) |
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Will this be the place where you live? |
3.
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Will your work activities clearly be incidental to this being your home
and not interfere with the conduct other household activities? |
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Will your work area, including storage space, be limited to no more than
25% of the interior (habitable space) of your home and not involve any
exterior space or other parts of the property (garages, etc.)? |
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Will you be maintaining your home so it still looks like a dwelling and
has no visible signs or displays or other evidence of business activity
being conducted? |
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Will everyone who frequents your home and engages in your work be a
member of your household? (If you are handicapped, there is provision
for an outside assistant. |
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Will you be limiting your work to paperwork and the results of mental
efforts and, if you make things, to craft items, art work, or
individualized, custom-made articles, where none of the things is mass
or assembly-line produced and none require the use of industrial
equipment? |
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If you repair anything for -profit, will you be limiting your repairs
strictly to household items ( including paintings and books) which you
can easily move without the aid of a dolly or other moving devices, and
will you be picking these items up and delivering them back to the
customer, rather than having them delivered to and retrieved from your
home? |
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If you plan to sell anything on-premises, will you be limiting the sales
to items that you individually custom make for the purchaser, and will
the sales clearly be incidental to bulk of the time you spend making the
items and doing other work related activities? (Off-premises sales by
telephone, mail, etc., as distinct form on-premises sales, are not
restricted.) |
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Except for the mail and use of you own personal passenger vehicle, will
deliveries of products, materials, or other items to your work be
restricted to daytime hours and not be more than three times a week, and
will all deliveries to or from your work be limited to vehicles with
cargo capacities no greater than one ton. |
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Will the only vehicles used in connection with your work be the personal
passenger vehicles of the members of your household? |
12.
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Are you sure that you will not be engaged in any of the specifically
prohibited activities on the list below? |
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| PROHIBITED USES |
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Mass production of goods or assembly line fabrication; |
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Repair or alteration of internal combustion engines, lawn and garden
equipment, motor vehicles or parts thereof, boats or other
transportation equipment, or any other non-household goods; |
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Contracting services for paving, construction, heating, plumbing,
electrical work, or work related to the maintenance of real property
(including lawn care and snow removal), except where use of the premises
for the home occupation is strictly limited to office functions (i.e.,
telephoning, drawing up contracts, billing, bookkeeping, etc.); |
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Livery and taxi services; |
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Restaurant activities; catering involving food preparation on the
premises of the home occupation; |
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Veterinary services, kennels, animal grooming, animal breeding,
butchering, taxidermy, or other activities involving live or dead
animals; |
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Mortuary services; |
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On-premises medical or health care treatment, physical therapy, and
services involving gyms or equipment for exercise or physical treatment; |
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On-premises counseling or rehabilitation services for mental, drug,
alcohol, marital, or personal or social problems; |
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Personal grooming, barbering, hairstyling, or other cosmetic services,
laundering or dry-cleaning; |
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On-premises sales promotions or training activities; |
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Studio work involving on-premises customer sittings or posing; |
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On-premises parapsychological services (astrologers, palm readers,
etc.); |
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Escort and on-premises personal entertainment services. |