Reference Library

Home Occupations

• "Sign Regulations and Home Occupations: Accessory Uses, Difficult Issues"
  Presenters: Attorney Diane M. Gorrow and Attorney Maureen L. Pomeroy,
  Soule, Leslie, Kidder, Sayward & Loughman, PLLC
  NHMA law lecture #2, Fall 2011
  Accessory uses are subordinate and incidental to principal uses, but they can generate their own major land use control issues. This lecture examines the authority of municipalities to regulate signs on town and private property, state laws on political signs and signs in right-of-ways, and the many constitutional limitations on regulation. This lecture also reviews the often controversial use of residences for home occupations and problems created by expansions of those businesses.
• APA PAS Report #391, "Home Occupation Ordinances", Butler and Getzels, October 1985
• Examples of local regulations (Belmont, Brentwood, Bradford, Canterbury, Littleton, Londonderry, Loudon, Nashua, Newmarket, Springfield)
  • East Kingston
  • Newton

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