It would be one thing if your home based web business were Google, but this is ridiculous - the business is run on the kitchen table (or wherever) from a lap top by a widowed mom trying to spend more time with her son so she didn’t have to work 80 hours per week and never be home. Thankfully the Mayor - Leo Matzke - realized the town bureaucracy had run amok and intervened. Instead of making a one time exception, they need codes to protect home based OCCUPATIONS and home based businesses which do not create a traffic nightmare in the neighborhood. Knowing the Oneida NY area, they probably have an old factory or office building that’s no longer used that could be turned into a central business incubator/meeting place for internet businesses or other home based workers who had to meet customer occasionally.
From 9WSYR.com
When Mary Ann Read’s son Shane was six, his father died. He’s 15 now, and for years his mom worked 80 hour weeks to make ends meet. She was never home.
Mary Ann says, “He wrote an essay for school about what had happened to his dad. What really hit me was he felt like he had been deserted by the whole family.”
Mary Ann felt that she had to find a way to work at home. Last spring she and her partner founded Net-Dzyne; web design and hosting for small businesses. It was run entirely from their home until the city found out.
“By September 6th, we had to have a letter to the city, saying that we would no longer do business in our home.”
The neighborhood is zoned residential. No businesses allowed. Even if the business amounts to a laptop on the dining room table. The zoning law shut them down just when they were getting started.
Since Net-Dzyne creates no traffic or other impact on the neighborhood, an exception is likely to be made. It’s welcome news for others who would like to follow this company’s lead.
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