ZoningVerdict

Home occupations in Miramar, FL

What the Miramar zoning ordinance says about home occupations, district by district. Section numbers link to the official ordinance.

All districts

This session found no dedicated "home occupation" standard inside the Land Development Code: Chapter 4 (Zoning), Chapter 5 (Standards, including the full Sec. 505 accessory-use article), Chapter 7 (Use Regulations), and Chapter 8 (Development Standards of General Applicability) were fetched and searched live this session, and none contains a section titled or clearly governing home-based businesses. Sec. 405.23.3 (Home-Based and Common Area-Based Assembly Uses) governs home gatherings/assemblies (social, religious, or similar), not a home-based commercial occupation standard. A verifier session independently re-searched the full text of Sec. 405 (all subsections) live and confirmed the same result: no home-occupation or home-business standard exists anywhere in it. Because the LDC is silent, Florida's Home-Based Business Act, F.S. 559.955, sets a state-law floor that applies regardless: a local government may not require a business license or otherwise regulate a home-based business more strictly than other businesses if the business (1) has no employees working on-site other than residents of the dwelling plus up to two non-resident employees or contractors, (2) generates no more parking than a similar residence without a business, (3) is not visibly different from surrounding residential uses as viewed from the street and conducts retail sales only on-site, (4) remains secondary to the property's residential use, and (5) does not create a noise, smoke, fume, odor, or hazardous-material nuisance beyond what is allowed for a non-business residence. This floor does not override HOA or condominium association restrictions, or short-term/transient rental rules. Home-based business licensing itself, if any, most likely lives in the City's separate Code of Ordinances (business tax receipt/occupational license chapter), a different Municode product not fetched this session. Confirm with the Building, Planning and Zoning Department before operating a home-based business; do not assume the LDC's silence means no restriction applies, and do not assume the City can lawfully ban a qualifying home-based business outright given the F.S. 559.955 floor.

Get the full picture for your property

Enter an address. We identify the zoning district and assemble what the ordinance says about it: permitted uses, dimensional rules, accessory structures, and the approval process.

District identification is free. The full brief is $79.