De Pere, WI Business Licensing & Operations: Auto Repair on Residential Property (2026)

The prohibition sits within the Home Occupations article's exemption and exclusion list at Section 14-78(8)(c)5, which bars a set of uses from qualifying as a home occupation regardless of Type A or Type B classification: vehicle or internal-combustion-engine repair and large-appliance repair, dispatch centers where employees are sent to other job sites, equipment or supply rental businesses, in-person retail sales, eating or drinking places, funeral or interment services, and animal care, grooming or boarding businesses. h limits any home occupation to one passenger vehicle on site and bars storing or using vehicles, trailers, parts or machinery outside a completely enclosed building.

Because vehicle repair cannot qualify as any type of home occupation, an operator has to locate the business on property zoned for the Commercial Service or Industrial Service use categories under Article VII's commercial and industrial use provisions instead, where it is reviewed under those categories' own supplemental standards rather than the home occupation rules.