Home-based business zoning is set by your city or township, not Genesee County. Michigan's Zoning Enabling Act lets local governments define and limit home occupations, and requires them to allow craft or fine-art instruction at home.
Under the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act (MCL 125.3101 et seq.), Michigan cities and villages zone their own land and townships zone unincorporated areas; the county zones only where a township has not, which is rare in heavily townshipped Genesee County. So whether you can run a home business, and any limits on employees, customer traffic, or square footage, come from your local zoning ordinance (Flint, Grand Blanc, Burton, Davison, Fenton, or your township). Michigan does mandate that every zoning ordinance permit a resident to give instruction in a craft or fine art within a single-family home as a home occupation.
Operating a home occupation that violates local zoning can bring municipal civil-infraction citations, fines, and orders to cease the use. Penalties are set by each city or township.
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