Kootenai County's Land Use and Development Code (Title 8) allows home occupations as an accessory use in residential and rural zones, provided the business stays clearly incidental to living on the site and meets the home-occupation standards.
In the unincorporated county, home-based businesses are governed by the Kootenai County Land Use and Development Code (Title 8), adopted under Idaho's Local Land Use Planning Act. Section 8.4.501 defines a home occupation as an occupation, profession, or craft that is clearly incidental to the residential use of a site, and subjects it to standards limiting employees, floor area, customer traffic, and storage. A business that generates regular retail customer traffic or is really an equipment-storage/dispatch operation is not a home occupation; it must instead be permitted as a cottage industry under 8.4.504. Inside Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls, or Hayden, the city zoning code applies instead of the county code.
Operating a business inconsistent with the home-occupation standards is a land-use code violation subject to county code enforcement and abatement under Title 8.
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