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Special Home Occupation – 3907 Tessier Road Gem Lake Planning Commission 1/14/2025 January 8, 2025 Page 3 The second category (home occupations that require a license) applies to a home occupation that does one (or more) of the following: 1. Occupations that have one non-resident employee working on-site at one time. 2. Occupations that require parking of light commercial vehicles, or trailers with a maximum one -ton payload capacity. 3. Occupations that result in manufacturing, processing, or assembly of products on -site. 4. Occupations that result in customers coming to the residence, such as selling of crafts or baked goods, providing teaching or tutoring to multiple students. 5. Occupations that result in deliveries of goods to the residence. The applicant’s proposed home occupation would result in customers coming to the property; therefore, it requires a license from the city. Ordinance No. 134, Section 4 outlines requirements for home occupations that require a license or CUP, which are shown below in italics with staff’s comments following. 1. No traffic shall be generated by a home occupation in greater volumes than would normally be expected in a residential neighborhood. The need for off-street parking shall not exceed more than three off-street parking spaces for the home occupation at any given time, in addition to the parking spaces required by the residents. Per the submittal, the applicant anticipates at most four customers on-site in a day and having an average of two on-site customers per week. Provided there are less than three customer vehicles on-site at one time, this requirement would be met. 2. No more than one non-resident employee shall be allowed to work on the premises at one time. Nonresident employees who work off the premises may be allowed to visit the premises. If an on-site employee is parking on site, off-site employees shall not leave their vehicles on site. If there is no on-site employee vehicle parked on site, one off-site employee vehicle may be parked on site. The applicant can have up to one non-resident employee allowed to work on the premises at one time. 3. No vehicle associated with the home occupation, including customers or employees, shall be parked on the street or block sidewalks or public easements. Private vehicles used by the residents shall not be included in this subsection. The applicant has parking available on-site on the existing driveway by the detached garage. 4. An area equivalent to no more than 50 percent of each level of the house, including the basement and garage, shall be used in the conduct of a home occupation. Per the submittal, the applicant proposes to conduct the home occupation in the detached garage (which has a size of 832 SF). 5. No equipment or process shall be used in such home occupation which creates noise, vibration, light, glare, fumes, smoke, dust, odors or electrical interference detectable to the normal senses off the premises. If electrical interference occurs, no equipment or process shall be used which creates visual or audible interference in any radio or television receivers off the premises or causes fluctuations in line voltage off the premises. Per the submittal, the applicant’s proposed home occupation would appear to meet these requirements. 6. Storage of materials and goods outdoors is prohibited. There is no outdoor storage proposed. 7. There shall be no fire, safety or health hazards created by the Home Occupation. Per the submittal, the applicant’s proposed home occupation would appear to meet these requirements.