Annapolis home occupation rules prohibit customer or client traffic to the residence. No appointments, walk-in customers, or regular deliveries beyond normal residential scale. Violations reported by neighbors can result in revocation.
The no-customer-traffic requirement for Annapolis home occupations is strictly enforced in residential neighborhoods. Clients, customers, students, or patients may not come to the home as part of a business operation. Tutoring, therapy, music lessons, beauty services, and other service businesses that require clients to visit are not permitted as home occupations without a special exception or change of use. The city's dense Historic District and Eastport neighborhoods are particularly sensitive to commercial traffic. Delivery vehicles making regular business deliveries (not normal residential mail/packages) may also trigger code enforcement.
Customer traffic at home occupation: code enforcement notice. Continued violation: home occupation permit revocation.
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