5 rules for unincorporated Clayton County, Georgia.
Verified from official government sources
Clayton County allows home occupations in residential zones as permitted uses, but the business must be clearly incidental and subordinate to living in the home. It cannot use more than 25% of the floor area, employ non-residents, or alter the home's residential character.
Clayton County Zoning Ordinance, App. A, Sec. 6.10, HO-02 (A)(1), (9)
The use of a dwelling unit for the home occupation shall be clearly incidental and subordinate to the residential use of the property. ... The home occupation shall not utilize more than twenty-five (25) percent of the total floor area of the primary structure.
A Clayton County home occupation may display one sign attached to the primary structure and not exceeding 2 square feet, as authorized by Article 8 sign standards. No off-site signs and no signs placed in the yard are permitted.
Clayton County Zoning Ordinance, App. A, Sec. 6.10, HO-02 (A)(13)
The home occupation may have a sign, attached to the primary structure, not exceeding 2 square feet, as authorized by Article 8, Sign Standards (SS). No off-site sign or signs in the yard of the property shall be permitted.
Georgia lets residents make non-potentially-hazardous foods in their home kitchen and sell them directly to consumers. A cottage food operator produces only in their primary residence's kitchen for direct sale. Note: Clayton County zoning bars on-site retail sales from the home itself.
Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 40-7-19-.02 (Definitions)
Cottage food operator means a person who produces cottage food products only in the home kitchen of that person's primary domestic residence and only for sale directly to the consumer.
Clayton County zoning permits family day care homes in residential districts subject to state licensing plus local standards: at least 35 square feet of indoor and 200 square feet of outdoor play area per child, a 4-foot fence around outdoor play areas, and a county business license.
Clayton County Zoning Ordinance, App. A, Sec. 6.10, DCF-01 (C), (D), (E)
Each family day care home shall provide not less than thirty-five (35) square feet of indoor play area for each child ... not less than two hundred (200) square feet of outdoor play area for each child ... All required outdoor play/recreation areas shall be enclosed by a fence or wall not less than four (4) feet in height.
Clayton County home businesses must hold the appropriate occupational licensing, including a Clayton County business license, and cannot employ anyone who does not reside at the home. At least one resident must be the primary operator of the home occupation.
Clayton County Zoning Ordinance, App. A, Sec. 6.10, HO-02 (A)(5), (2)
Resident participants in a home occupation must have the appropriate occupational licensing, including business licenses. ... The home occupation shall not involve the employment of any person other than those residing at the location of the home occupation.
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