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Home Businesses
All business operations in the City of Norfolk are required to have a business license.
Some businesses may be operated from a residence if they comply with the following criteria:
- No clients are permitted to visit the home
- There will be no storage of any merchandise or equipment at the home
- Less than 15% of the home will be utilized for business
- Only those individuals residing at the home may be utilized in the business
- No detached structures (garages or sheds) may be utilized for the business
- There shall be no sale of merchandise from the home
- There shall be no food processing
The Zoning Ordinance of the City of Norfolk, 1992 as amended prohibits the following business to be operated from the home address:
- Beauty Parlors, Barber Shops Beauticians, Massage Parlors, Masseuse
- Convalescent, Nursing Home
- Contractors, Subcontractors
- Radio, television, small electronic and computer repair
- Janitorial Services
- Landscape, Lawn Service
- Retail, Wholesale Businesses-no showrooms
- Automotive Repair and Towing
If the applicant does not own his home, then a letter, from the property owner
stating that they will allow the applicant to operate the particular business from the property is required.
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