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Home-Based Business
sec. 731-220. home occupations.
(a) Permitted home occupations. Professions and domestic occupations, crafts or services which, as typically carried out, can be conducted in a dwelling without impairment of the use thereof as a place of residence and with no detrimental effect upon adjacent residential properties, as permitted home occupations. Examples of professional services which constitute permitted home occupations include law, medicine, dentistry, architecture, engineering, real estate brokerage, tutoring, writing, painting, music instruction, photography and such services as are provided by clergyman, insurance agents, notaries public and manufacturer's agents. Examples of domestic occupations, crafts and services which constitute permitted home occupations include dressmaking, millinery, sewing, tailoring, weaving, hair grooming, washing, ironing and cabinet making.
(b) Home occupation requirements. Permitted home occupations shall comply with each of the following requirements:
- The primary use of the dwelling unit shall remain residential.
- The home occupation shall be clearly incidental and subordinate to the primary residential use of the dwelling. No more than six hundred (600) square feet or thirty (30) percent of the total square footage of the dwelling unit, whichever is lesser, shall be used in connection with the home occupation(s).
- All aspects of the home occupation activity that occur on the premises shall be conducted within the dwelling structure in which the operator makes his actual residence.
- The operator of the home occupation(s) shall make the dwelling unit within which the home occupation is conducted his legal and primary place of residence.
- No structural alterations shall be effected to the interior of the dwelling which would render it undesirable for residential use.
- No structural additions, enlargements or exterior alterations changing the residential appearance of the dwelling or lot shall be permitted.
- No additional or separate exterior entrance shall be constructed for the purpose of conducting the home occupation.
- The dwelling unit shall not be a mobile dwelling unit.
- The home occupation(s) shall not regularly attract more than four (4) individuals simultaneously onto the premises for reasons related to the home occupation(s) and shall not generate significantly greater traffic volume than would normally be expected in the particular residential area in which the home occupation(s) is conducted.
- No provision for off-street parking or loading facilities, other than requirements of the applicable Dwelling District, shall be permitted.
- No display of goods or external evidence of the home occupation shall be permitted other than a window or wall sign as permitted by the Sign Regulation of Marion County, Indiana, 71-AO-4, as amended (section 3.20, On-Premises Signs: Dwelling Districts).
- Hours of operation of the home occupation shall not interfere with use and enjoyment of adjacent residential properties.
- Permitted home occupations shall comply with all standards set forth in section 2.00, B.
- No permitted home occupation shall interfere with the reasonable use and enjoyment of adjacent residential properties.
Did You Know?
Signs
Any Signs you have on your property advertising your home based business must have a permit, and fall under the guidelines of the Revised Code.
Primary Residence
If you are running a home based business, that home must be your legal residence, as listed in The Code.
Parking
Additional parking to serve your home based business is not permitted; only that parking which is permitted under the applicable Dwelling District ordinance is allowed.
Violations
Can result in citations, a court appearance, and fines up to $2,500.
Download the Home Based Business Zoning Compliance Brochure.
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