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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