5 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in Yakima County, Washington.
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In unincorporated Yakima County, running a business from your home is a home occupation, an accessory use that must stay clearly secondary to the residence. The county zoning code sets the conditions, and Washington's B&O tax applies to the income.
A home occupation in unincorporated Yakima County is meant to stay invisible from the street, so business signage is tightly limited or barred outright. The county zoning code keeps residential areas looking residential, and HOA covenants often prohibit signs entirely.
Because a home occupation must stay secondary to the residence, unincorporated Yakima County keeps client visits, deliveries, and parking at ordinary residential levels. Walk-in retail is not what the home occupation allowance is for, and parking should stay off the street.
Washington lets you sell certain homemade shelf-stable foods from a Yakima County kitchen under a WSDA Cottage Food Operation Permit. Unlike many states, Washington requires a home-kitchen inspection, caps gross sales at $35,000 a year, and allows only direct sales to the consumer.
RCW 69.22.010
a person who produces cottage food products only in the home kitchen of that person's primary domestic residence in Washington and only for sale directly to the consumer.
Caring for other people's children for pay in a Yakima County home is licensed by Washington's Department of Children, Youth & Families, not the county. A family home child care serves up to 12 children and needs a state license with background checks and inspection.
RCW 43.216.010
a child care provider who regularly provides early childhood education and early learning services for not more than 12 children at any given time in the provider's home in the family living quarters
1 cities in Yakima County have their own home business rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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