St. Johns County cannot zone a home business out of a residential neighborhood. Florida's Home-Based Business Act, Fla. Stat. §559.955, bars the county and cities like St. Augustine from prohibiting or licensing a home-based business differently than any other business, so long as the business stays secondary to the home.
The 2021 Home-Based Business Act preempts local control of home businesses. Under Fla. Stat. §559.955 a resident in St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra Beach, Nocatee, or unincorporated St. Johns County may run a business from home, and the local government may not prohibit, restrict, regulate, or license it in a manner different from other businesses. The business must stay secondary to residential use, employ no more than two workers who live elsewhere, and, viewed from the street, look consistent with the surrounding homes. St. Johns County still enforces neutral rules on parking, noise, and nuisance that apply to every property alike.
A home business that outgrows the Act's limits, taking over the dwelling, drawing extra employees, or altering the home's residential look, loses the statute's protection and faces county code enforcement, citations, and daily fines until it complies.
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