Davenport allows home occupations by-right in any dwelling as an accessory use, provided the business stays incidental to residential use, occupies only the home or a permitted accessory structure, and keeps at most one non-resident worker on-site.
Zoning Ordinance Sec. 17.09(L) governs home occupations. The use must be clearly incidental and secondary to residential use and must not change the dwelling's character. All activity and storage must occur completely within the principal building or a permitted accessory structure. Only immediate-family residents plus one non-resident may work on-site at any time. Auto and machinery repair, tractor-trailer or heavy-equipment storage, on-site rental pickup, and firearm-transfer businesses are expressly prohibited. Day care homes are regulated separately as a principal use, not as a home occupation.
Zoning violations are enforced by Development and Neighborhood Services as municipal infractions; the City can order the use to cease and pursue civil penalties for each day of continued noncompliance.
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