Katy's zoning ordinance permits limited home occupations as a secondary residential use, restricting allowed activities to specific professional and craft trades while prohibiting retail and noxious operations.
The City of Katy's zoning ordinance allows customary home occupations such as dressmaking, millinery, washing, ironing, or the office of a physician, dentist, surgeon, architect, lawyer, engineer, musician, or artist. The home occupation must be located in the dwelling used as the operator's private residence and must remain a secondary use. No non-family assistants may be employed on-premises. Retail business is prohibited. Excluded uses include barbershops, beauty shops, carpenter shops, electrician shops, plumbing shops, radio shops, tin shops, auto repair, and furniture repair. Code Enforcement actively investigates illegal home occupations.
Operating a prohibited home business such as auto repair or a barbershop, employing non-family workers on-site, or conducting retail business at home triggers Code Enforcement action.
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Katy, TX
Katy's Code of Ordinances and Zoning Ordinance (Exhibit 14A) do not set a numeric maximum fence height for residential lots and require no building permit fo...
Katy, TX
Katy property owners must keep lots free of rubbish, brush, and other debris under Chapter 6 (Ordinance 01023). Weeds taller than nine inches, or any vegetat...
Katy, TX
Katy prohibits the manufacture, sale, possession, and discharge of all fireworks inside city limits under Article 5.07 of its Code of Ordinances. Violators f...
Katy, TX
Katy bans construction or use of any barbecue pit or open flame within 10 feet of a multifamily building wall, or beneath a balcony, porch, roof overhang, or...
Katy, TX
Katy requires a building permit for converting a garage to living space under the 2021 IRC and 2023 NEC adopted Jan 1, 2024. Conversions cannot create an unr...
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Katy STR Article 4.10 requires parking to comply with the zoning ordinance, prohibits required parking in public right-of-way, alleys, or access easements, a...
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