Home Occupation Permit (Fee: $120)

The Planning Commission may issue a permit allowing a home occupation or home based business.

The home occupation must follow meet the definition established in code: "Home occupation" means a profession or use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling or accessory building by the owners, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the dwelling or accessory buildings and does not change the character or appearance of the dwelling or exhibit other visible evidence of the conduct of such home occupation.

A home occupation shall permit the employment of one person not a resident in the subject home and shall have not more than fifteen percent of the existing floor space of the structures on the property, not to exceed five hundred twenty-five square feet, used for the business or profession.

The commission follows criteria (PMC 19.72.020) to guide them in deciding whether a permit should be granted.