A home occupation in unincorporated St. Joseph County may not generate traffic beyond a normal residential level, and parking stays off-street on the lot. The county Zoning Ordinance restricts the kind and intensity of uses, so a home business cannot draw commercial volumes of customers.
Under IC 36-7-4-601 the St. Joseph County zoning ordinance may restrict the kind and intensity of uses, and the Area Plan Commission treats a home occupation as a low-intensity accessory use. That means customer and delivery traffic must stay at ordinary residential volumes and any parking the business generates is met off the street on the parcel, not along the road. A new or widened driveway onto a county road needs a permit from the county Highway Department for drainage and sight-distance safety. Inside South Bend or Mishawaka the municipal home-occupation rules apply, and subdivision covenants near Granger can bar customer traffic outright.
The Area Plan Commission can act against a home occupation that generates non-residential traffic or on-street parking, and blocking a county road draws separate traffic enforcement by the sheriff.
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