Tamarac, FL Home Business: Zoning & Home Occupation Permits (2026)

Tamarac authorizes home based businesses as an accessory use under LDC §10-3.4(D)(7), permitted in any residential or mixed-use zoning district but only on the condition that the activity stays secondary to the property's use as a residential dwelling. Subsection (a), Accessory Use, makes that hierarchy explicit: the business cannot become the dominant use of the property and must remain incidental to the home. Subsection (b), Employees and Residency, ties the use to the resident: the principal person providing the business or service must actually live in the dwelling, and the ordinance allows the business to bring in up to two employees or independent contractors who do not reside there, but no more.

That two-person outside-staff ceiling is the operative zoning limit distinguishing a lawful home occupation from what is effectively a small commercial office operating out of a house. Beyond staffing, the same section layers in the neighborhood compatibility test at subsection (c), the parking and vehicle standards, a bar on retail transactions at any structure other than the dwelling itself, and requirements that signage, noise, vibration, and hazardous-material handling comply with the city's general code. Community Development administers home occupation compliance through the standard business tax receipt and code enforcement process, and a business that outgrows these limits must relocate to a commercially zoned property.