Home-based businesses in Lima are regulated as 'home occupations' under the City's Planning and Zoning Code (Part Twelve of the Codified Ordinances), which allows a business accessory and incidental to a dwelling in residential districts subject to zoning-district standards. Check the specific district rules with the Lima Building & Zoning
Lima zones property under its home-rule authority (Ohio Revised Code Chapter 713) and adopts a Planning and Zoning Code as Part Twelve of the Codified Ordinances of Lima, hosted by American Legal Publishing. Home occupations are treated as an accessory use that is clearly incidental and subordinate to the residential use of the dwelling, and are permitted only where the applicable residential zoning district allows them. Typical Ohio home-occupation standards — conducting the business within the dwelling, limiting the floor area used, restricting non-resident employees, prohibiting outdoor storage or display, and barring uses that generate excessive traffic, noise, odor, or other off-lot nuisances — apply through the zoning code and are administered by the Building & Zoning Division. Because the
Operating a home occupation that is not permitted in the zoning district, or that violates the home-occupation standards (e.g., non-resident employees, outdoor storage, nuisance impacts), is a zoning violation enforced by the Lima Building & Zoning / Code Enforcement Division.
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