ZDO 836: Home Occupations For Canine Skills Training

836.01 Definitions

The following definitions apply to Section 836:

1. Canine Skills Training: Canine obedience, agility, tracking, lure coursing, herding, and similar canine training programs and activities.
2. Employee: Any on-site person, whether they work full-time or part-time in the home occupation, including the operator, partners, assistants, and any other persons participating in the operation of the business.
3. Operator: The person who conducts the home occupation, has majority ownership interest in the home occupation, and is responsible for strategic decisions and day-to-day operations of the home occupation.

836.02 Standards

Home occupations for canine skills training shall comply with the following standards:

1. Operator: The operator of the home occupation shall reside full-time in a lawfully established dwelling unit on the tract on which the home occupation is located.
2. Employees: The home occupation shall have no more than five employees.
3. Type of Buildings: Notwithstanding the definition of home occupation in Section 202, Definitions, the home occupation shall be operated substantially in the operator's dwelling or other buildings normally associated with uses permitted in the TBR District.
4. Appearance: On non-training session days, the use shall not take an outward appearance nor manifest any characteristics of a business or operation of a service commercial nature, except for those characteristics normally associated with or allowed for a use identified as "allowed" in Table 406-1, Permitted Uses in the TBR District.
5. Impacts on Dwellings: The evaluation of compliance with Subsection 1203.03(D) shall include consideration of impacts on dwellings even though dwellings are not primary uses in the TBR District.
6. Noise: Noise shall be regulated as follows:
   1. From 8:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m., the average peak sound pressure level, when measured off the subject property, of noise create by the home occupation shall not exceed the greater of 60 dB(A) or the ambient noise level. During all 
      other hours, the home occupation shall not create noise that is detectable to normal sensory perception off the subject property.
      1. Noise generated by vehicles entering or exiting the subject property, but not by idling vehicles, shall be exempt from Subsection 836.02(E)(1).
      2. Subsection 836.02(E)(1) shall not apply to noise detectable on public rights-of-way and railroad rights-of-way.
   2. A noise study may be required to demonstrate compliance with Subsection 836.02(E)(1). If a noise study is required, measurements shall be made with a sound level meter. The sound level meter shall be an instrument in good operating condition, meeting the requirements of a Type I or Type II meter, as specified in ANSI Standard 1.4-1971. The sound level meter shall contain at least an A-weighted scale, and both fast and slow meter response capability. Personnel making measurements shall have completed training in the use of the sound level meter, and measurement procedures consistent with that training shall be followed.
7. Parking: The home occupation shall comply with Section 1015, Parking and Loading. In addition, on-street parking shall be prohibited.
8. Signs: Signs shall be permitted pursuant to Section 1010, Signs.

[Added by Ord. ZDO-230, 9/26/11; Amended by Ord. ZDO-241, 1/1/13; Amended by Ord. ZDO-268, 10/2/18]