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Home-Based Businesses

The City of Winder would like to welcome you and your home-based business to our city. We would like to give you a few helpful hints of the whats, whens, and wheres that you might need to take care of.

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Allowable Home Occupations

The following uses are examples of allowable home occupations:
  1. In-home childcare, but not more than six children at a time, including the caregiver's own preschool-aged children
  2. tutoring of all types, but limited to four pupils at one time
  3. arts and crafts
  4. small appliance repair
  5. contractor office (i.e. painting, cleaning, yard maintenance, building) but not including outside storage of equipment, materials or vehicles
  6. attorneys
  7. accountants
  8. real estate agents
  9. insurance agents
  10. counselors, psychological therapists, etc.
  11. upholstery repair
  12. alterations
  13. chimney cleaning
  14. home marketing (e.g. Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, etc.) and mail order marketing of items
  15. musician's and artist's studio
  16. laundering services
  17. other similar uses as approved by the planning director
  18. barber and beauty shops, provided that the use is conducted by family members who live in the residence (no outside employees permitted). The business shall consist of no more than one beauty/barber chair and no more than 2 customers shall be permitted at one time.
Said business shall operate only between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. All local and state licenses as well as any necessary permits from the Barrow County Health Department must be obtained prior to the business being opened. There shall be no external evidence that a business is in operation inside the residence. Customer parking must be available on the same side of the street as the residence or paved parking must be provided on the side or rear of the property. Parking on the front of the property is prohibited.

Occupations Which are Not Allowed
  1. antique sales
  2. medical doctors or any practice of physical and/or medical application, including chiropractors and massage therapists
  3. dentists
  4. catering establishments (i.e. businesses providing contract services consisting of food and banquet preparations prepared internally and delivered to customers off the premises)
  5. vehicle repair/mechanic's garages and automobile detailing
  6. commercial greenhouses or nurseries
  7. animal grooming


The Following Provisions Apply to Home Occupations
  1. DWELLING: the occupation carried on within the dwelling unit shall be restricted to the heated floor space and shall not occupy an excess of 25 percent of the heated floor space within the structure. The occupation shall be conducted entirely within the building.
  2. RESTRICTION ON SALES: The occupation shall involve the sale of only those articles or services produced on the premises, except in the case of mail order or home marketing services
  3. EMPLOYEES: The occupation shall be conducted by members of the family who are living in the residence and a maximum of one additional employee
  4. EXTERNAL DISPLAY OF PRODUCTS: There shall be no external display of products or storage of equipment or any other externally visible evidence whatsoever of the occupation, business or profession
  5. SIGNAGE: There shall be no signs on the property advertising the home occupation
  6. NUISANCE: There shall be no emission of smoke, dust, odor, fumes, glare, noise, vibration, electrical or electronic disturbance detectable at the lot line or beyond
  7. PROHIBITIED EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS: There shall be no chemical, mechanical or electrical equipment on the premises other than that normally found in a purely domestic residence. Chemical equipment shall also include any chemicals which are not normally found in a purely domestic residence.
  8. PARKING AND BUSINESS RELATED VEHICLES (VEHICLES EITHER MARKED OR EQUIPPED COMMERICALLY): No on-street parking of business-related vehicles shall be permitted at any time. No business vehicles larger than a van, panel truck or pickup truck shall be permitted to park overnight on the premises. The number of business-related vehicles shall be limited to one.
  9. SALE OF GARDEN PRODUCE: The above-listed requirements of a home occupation shall not be construed to restrict the sale of garden produce grown on the premises within the AG (Agricultural) District, provided this exception shall not extend to allow the operation of a commercial greenhouse or nursery or existence of stands or booths for display of such produce.
  10. DEFINITION OF "ON THE PREMISES": "On the premises", as it pertains to home occupations, shall be defined as the actual dwelling structure plus the lot on which such structure is located.
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