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Zac, County Code in places such as Montgomery generally restrict Storefront Businesses to operate in areas with the zoning designation of C or C1, "Commercial" or "Commercial/Office".

While it is legal -- within certain restrictions -- to operate a Home Office in Montgomery, the general rule is that if you will have customers visiting your business, you must operate in a C or C1 zoned area.

In Montgomery, this means "strip malls", "shopping plazas", or "office buildings".

Legal requirements exist that for any C or C1 zoned facility, you have to have a certain number of parking spaces, have to be located at or near certain classes of road types or intersections, etc.

Montgomery flatly prohibits, outside of historical precedent operations or special districts such as townships, Mixed Use Residental/Storefront.

Otherwise, so the rationale goes, you'd have a business at most ground-floor addresses, and an apartment upstairs and a residence out back.

Evidently they decided that it would be easier to impose restrictive zoning than to write a comprehensive Use-Tax code.

I cordially invite you and anyone else to read the Montgomery County Code sections on zoning and zone-based taxation and make any sense of it at all.

Regards, and by the way, all of Southeast Asia from the Indus to the Mekong is headwatered by vanishing Himalayan glaciers. 2.8-BILLIONS of people will have extremely undependable water supplies by no later than 2050 and they will all need to migrate to survive.

Further, Carthage must be destroyed.

by Thomas Hardman on Dec 30, 2009 11:18 pm • link • report