Accessory Uses

6.2 ACCESSORY USES

• 6.2.1 Accessory uses are uses which are clearly incidental to and customarily associated with the principal use and shall be operated and maintained under the same ownership and on the same lot as the principal use and shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, private garages, home occupations, swimming pools, and accessory parking. Accessory uses cannot exist without nor precede any principal use on a vacant lot. Accessory uses are subject to all the requirements of this Ordinance.

• • A. A permitted accessory building or structure may cover up to twenty-five (25) percent of a side or rear yard but may not exceed twenty (20) feet in height, and shall not be located within any front yard. No accessory building or structure shall be located nearer than ten (10) feet to a principal building unless such accessory building is attached to the principal building in a manner making it an integral part of the principal building.

• • B. In R-200, R-80 and R-Med districts, a permitted accessory building or structure shall not be located less than fifteen (15) feet from any side or rear lot line. In the R-20 and MU districts, a permitted accessory building or structure shall not be located less than ten (10) feet from any side or rear lot line.

• • C. In all residential zones, a shed as defined herein shall not be located less than six (6) feet from any side or rear lot line.

• 6.2.2 Customary home occupation provided that:

• • A. The occupation shall be carried on wholly within the principal residential building existing at the time of the passage of the Ordinance or constructed in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance or within a building or other structure accessory thereto;

• • B. An office home occupation shall only be allowed by Special Use Permit. See Section 4.3, Use Code C4.

• • C. Home occupations shall not include hairdressers, barbers, cosmetologists, beauticians, manicurists and similar occupations.

• • D. The occupation is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling unit for residential purposes;

• • E. There shall be no exterior display, no exterior sign (except as permitted under Article 8 - Signs), no exterior storage of materials and no exterior indication of the home occupation or variation from the residential character of the principal building;

• • F. The occupation is carried on by a member of the family residing in the dwelling unit;

• • G. No offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odor, heat or glare should be produced;

• • H. In the case of individual tutoring, no more than two hundred (200) square feet of floor area shall be utilized;

• • I. The use shall not result in more than fifteen (15) vehicle trips per day to the dwelling, including those attributable to the residential use of the structure.