Lynn, MA Business Licensing & Operations: Auto Repair on Residential Property (2026)

Section 3.E.2.b.vii is a carve-out inside the general home-occupation accessory-use standard: it names specific businesses that 'shall be specifically excluded' from operating as a home occupation regardless of otherwise meeting the noise, storage and appearance standards in the rest of the subsection. The excluded list is massage parlors, autobody/autobody part sales and repairs, mobile automobile mechanical and autobody repair, and physician's offices. Because this exclusion sits inside Section 3.E.2.b (home occupation without employees) and is not qualified by any cross-reference to the special-permit track in Section 3.E.2.c (home occupations with employees), an auto repair operation cannot become legal in a dwelling by hiring staff and seeking a City Council special permit either; the use itself is barred as a home occupation, full stop. A resident wanting to run auto repair work would instead need a location zoned for that use as a principal or accessory use under Section 3's Table of Use Regulations, which is not the residential districts.