Is a home health care facility allowed? I will take care of the sick at home... I will have the business and hire nurses.
A Zoning Appeal is an filing that in truth begins a process. In filing it you must review zoning codes, draw up a floor plan, procure signatures from your neighbors, get an attorney, acquire a date before the zoning board, pay a relatively large fee for a city filing, usually in the low hundreds of dollars, and then present your case before the Zoning Board why you should be allowed to pursue your home occupation in functional violation of normal residential rules. All things being equal, these appeals are normally approved. Once yours is approved, you can then go through the normal process of obtaining a home occupany permit and business license as required for any business in a normal situation. Just because you need more doesn't mean you need less.
While it is all well and good to have the intention of starting a home business, it is not enought to have the intention. You must understand the limitations of a home business and the requirements of a home business. In this case, to establish the home business you wish to establish, you will have to apply to change the Zoning of your home, effectively changing it from a home to a commercial location in a residential area. This is not a simple process, and not gaurunteed to succeed, but worth the effort.
A home in Long Beach city is a place where it is legal to live. The principle requirement for that is that the building of interest be constructed on a parcel of land zoned by the city Zoning office for Residential purposes. As such, certain rules, regulation and taxes apply to it. Among those are limitations on what kinds of businesss can be run out of it. Now normally this would not prevent you from starting a home business, but to have in home care, you will be violating the most inviolate rule of the residential location: No customers coming to and from the residential location. To get around this you must file what is commonly called a Zoning Appeal.
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If you were to, in a roundabout manner, and you can, get your business license and home occupancy license without getting proper zoning approval for your location, or, finding a new location, you would be in some very serious trouble. Not only would you have commited some light fraud in dealing with the city, you would be providing, because of the nature of your business, partially unlicensed healthcare. That is a phrase you don't want anywhere near you or your business. As such, you do one of two things, end of story:
1. Go before the zoning board, and get approved or denied.
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2. Find a commercial location t oserve as your base of operations for your health services and avoid the entire matter.
What you do not do is:
3. Break the law.
Because 3 doesn't just end poorly in the short term, it destroys your possibilities of having a business in the longterm as a result of bad press.
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