Wyandotte County, KS Home Business: Zoning & Home Occupation Permits (2026)

Section 27-609(1) treats a 'customary home occupation' as an accessory use allowed in the single-family (R-1, R-1(B)) and two-family (R-2, R-2(B)) districts only after the planning division issues a home occupation permit. The conditions attached to that permit are specific: only members of the immediate family residing on the premises may participate in the business, no machinery or equipment may be used that interferes with a neighbor's radio or television reception, and no heavy equipment or truck exceeding 10,000 pounds GVWR, or any other object atypical of residential character, may be stored on-site.

Inventory or storage beyond product samples is likewise off-limits. instead sends it into the special use permit track under Division 6, where it must still meet the accessory-use standards for storing equipment, material, or vehicles that apply in residential districts. This dual-path structure lines up with § 27-593(a)(12), which separately lists 'home occupations' among the roughly 30 uses the board of commissioners may authorize by special use permit in any district, covering exactly the home occupations that fall outside the administrative permit's narrower conditions.