Home Business in McCracken County, KY (2026)
3 rules for unincorporated McCracken County, Kentucky.
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Zoning & Home Occupation Permits
McCracken County's Zoning Code § 150.016 lets residents run a HOME OCCUPATION inside a dwelling if it stays incidental to residential use, generates no noise, vibration, smoke, odor, or electrical interference beyond the property line, and provides at least two off-street parking spaces on the premises.
Home Occupation Standards, McCracken County
Some RestrictionsMcCracken County Code §§ 150.016, 150.070, 150.999
HOME OCCUPATION. (1) Any use conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on solely by the occupants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling purposes and does not change the character thereof; minimal stock in trade, or outside storage of equipment or materials, and not more than two persons other than the residents are to engage in such occupation....
Customer Traffic Restrictions
In unincorporated McCracken County, Kentucky, a home-based business must stay inside the dwelling or accessory building, employ no more than one non-resident worker, and, under Zoning Code § 150.016, customers or clients must not regularly visit the site, with no outside storage of equipment or materials allowed.
McCracken County Home Business Customer Limit
Some RestrictionsMcCracken County Code §§ 150.016, 150.999
HOME-BASED BUSINESS. In a dwelling house for one family, or one housekeeping unit only, on one lot; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the use of a minor part of the dwelling house, or accessory building, for an office or studio by person or persons residing in the dwelling house, and where there are no more than one non-resident employee, and where customers or clie...
Home Daycare
McCracken County's zoning code lists 'Child care' among the permitted HOME OCCUPATIONS under § 150.016, letting county residents run in-home daycare as an accessory use so long as it stays incidental to the dwelling, employs no more than two non-resident workers, and meets the chapter's general home-occupation standards.
Home Child Care Rules, McCracken County
Some RestrictionsMcCracken County Code §§ 150.016, 150.999
HOME OCCUPATION. (1) Any use conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on solely by the occupants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling purposes and does not change the character thereof; minimal stock in trade, or outside storage of equipment or materials, and not more than two persons other than the residents are to engage in such occupation....
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