Can a business operate from home? If so, what is the process?

A business may operate from a home, and must apply for a Home Occupation business license from the Finance Department.

A home occupation is limited to the following:

HOME OCCUPATION: The partial use of a dwelling unit for commercial or nonresidential uses by a resident thereof which is subordinate and incidental to the use of the dwelling for residential purposes, in compliance with all of the following conditions:

   A.   Not more than two hundred (200) square feet located in the dwelling shall be devoted to the home occupation;

   B.   There shall be no display of inventory, supplies, materials or merchandise on the premises;

   C.   No person shall be employed other than the immediate members of the family who reside on the premises;

   D.   No signs in connection with the home occupation, lighted or unlighted, shall be placed on the premises;

   E.   The home occupation shall not preempt the required off street parking spaces;

   F.   The home occupation shall not generate vehicular traffic not normally associated with residential uses;

   G.   No home occupation shall be permitted that creates noise, odor, dust, vibration, fumes, smoke, electrical interference or other objectionable conditions not normally associated with a residential occupancy.