If you wish to operate a business using your home as your business location, you are required to register and obtain the proper approvals prior to operating the business by doing the following:

• File a Business License Application
• and a Home Occupation Application

Any Danville business that does not have a commercial storefront, office or commercial or industrial location is considered to be a home-based business, even if the sales or services are performed outside the residence. Post office boxes, whether U.S. or private, can only be used as mailing addresses and cannot be registered as commercial locations. Also, rented storage facilities may not be used as your business location.

Home Occupation - Conditions of Approval

The use must not change the residential character of the dwelling or area, and is subject to the following conditions and criteria:

1. There shall be no merchandise or services for sale except that produced from or made on the premises.
2. The use shall not generate vehicular traffic in excess of that normally associated with single family residential use.
3. Not more than one (1) room or twenty-five percent (25%) of the habitable floor area of the principal structure, whichever is greater, shall be used for the Home Occupation. Garage areas and areas within accessory buildings shall not be considered as being habitable floor area.
4. There shall be no exterior indication of the Home Occupation.
5. No exterior signs shall be used.
6. No noise, odor, dust, fumes, vibration, smoke, electrical interference, or other interference, with the residential use of adjacent properties shall be created.
7. No persons shall be employed, except the applicant, in the conduct of the Home Occupation.