Springfield Zoning Code Section 155.045(c) limits a home occupation to one customer at a time and no more than eight customers per day, restricts client hours to 7:00 a.m. through 8:00 p.m., and bars any additional traffic or off-site impacts detectable outside the dwelling. Tutoring is separately capped at eight students per day.
City of Springfield Zoning Code Section 155.045(c) imposes traffic and intensity standards so that a home occupation does not adversely impact the residential character of the neighborhood. Subsection (c)(4) requires that the home occupation not result in the production of any additional noise, vibration, light, odor, dust, fumes, smoke, traffic, or other conditions audibly or visually detectable outside the dwelling unit by the sense of normal human beings. Subsection (c)(8) limits the total number of customers being served at one time to one at a time and no more than eight customers per day, and provides that the overlap of time when customers arrive or leave is not considered a violation. Subsection (c)(9) limits the hours of operation, for when clients or customers are present at the residence, to 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. The list of permitted home occupations in Section 155.045(b) separately caps tutoring at no more than eight students per day without any use of electronically amplified sound. These standards effectively prohibit a home business that draws steady walk-in or appointment traffic beyond a light, residential level.
Serving more than one customer at a time, more than eight customers per day, operating outside the 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. window, or generating traffic detectable outside the dwelling violates Section 155.045(c) and subjects the home occupation to City zoning enforcement.
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