Indian River County cannot zone a home business out of a residential street. Florida's Home-Based Business Act, Fla. Stat. §559.955, bars the county and cities like Vero Beach from prohibiting or licensing a home-based business differently than any other business, as long as it stays secondary to the home.
The 2021 Home-Based Business Act took control of home businesses away from local government. Under Fla. Stat. §559.955, a resident in Vero Beach, Sebastian, Fellsmere, or the unincorporated county may run a business from home, and the county may not prohibit, restrict, regulate, or license it differently than any other business. The business has to stay secondary to living there, use no more than two workers who live elsewhere, and, seen from the street, look like the homes around it. Indian River County still applies its neutral parking, noise, and nuisance rules the same way it does to every property.
A home business that outgrows the Act's limits, taking over the dwelling, adding employees, or changing how the home looks from the street, loses the statute's shield and faces county code enforcement, citations, and daily fines until it complies.
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