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♦ Chapter Seven Performance Based Standards (PBS) <br />Essentially, the home occupation is conceived of as being reasonably permitted in a <br />residential setting because it does not compromise the residential character of the area. A <br />reasonable home occupation would not generate conspicuous traffic, 'would not <br />visually call unusual attention to the home nor would it ever generate <br />nonresidential level noise. <br />• Accounting, bookkeeping <br />• Appraisal <br />• Architecture <br />• Legal sel vices <br />• Real estate sales <br />• Insurance sales <br />• Daycare with eight children or less (See GS §110 -86) <br />• Drafting services <br />• Tailoring (dressmaking, alterations, etc.) services <br />• Engineering <br />• Financial planning & investment services <br />• Fine arts studio (creation of individual works only, no mass <br />production) <br />• Interior decoration (no studio permitted) <br />• Mail order business (order taking only, no stock in trade) <br />• Musical instruction, voice or instrument <br />• Pet shop/ grooming (enclosed) <br />• .Photo laboratory (no studio work) <br />• Planning <br />• Tutoring <br />• One chair beauty and/or barber shop <br />• One chair tattoo studio <br />• Office work <br />• Similar, low impact endeavor <br />b) Activity inside. The use must be conducted entirely within the interior of the . <br />residence, must be clearly incidental and secondary to residential occupancy, and <br />may not change the residential character of the dwelling. <br />c) Maximum size. The use of the dwelling for a home occupation may not exceed <br />up to 25% of one floor of the principal building. <br />d) Employees. Residents of the dwelling may be engaged in the home occupation <br />with no more than one nonresident assistant employed. <br />Amended 11/16/2009 7 -11 <br />Page 327 <br />G -2 <br />