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I r "§174-25.1. Home Occupations. A. Statement of Intent. This section is intended to protect residential areas from potential adverse impacts of activities defined as home occupations, to permit residents of the community a broad choice in the use of their homes as a place of livelihood in the production or supplementing of personal/family income, to restrict incompatible uses and to establish criteria and standards for the use of residential structures or dwelling units for home occupations. B. Permitted Home Occupations. (1) Certain home occupations which involve only limited visits to the property by persons who are not residents of the premises, which involve no employees who are not residents of the premises, which will have no noticeable impact on abutting properties and which otherwise conform with the requirements of this section may be conducted upon approval of a home occupation permit following the procedures specified for plan reviews in Subsection 174-24.B. The home office of an author or editor, or of a "telecommuter" whose principal office is located elsewhere, is allowed by right and will not be subject to these regulations. The following shall be considered examples of home occupations permitted under this subsection: (a) Home sewing or tailoring business; (b) Studio of a painter, sculptor, photographer or similar professional artist; (c) Telephone answering service; (d) Production of crafts such as handiwork, model making, weaving, lapidary, or other similar products for the purpose of selling the product; (e) Tutoring and giving lessons, limited to four(4) students at one time; (f) Catering, home cooking and preserving for the purposes of selling the product; (g) Home office of an off-premises business such as a taxi service, hunting/fishing guide, tourist guide or similar business; (h) Computer consulting or programming; (i) Commercial shellfishing, lobstering and aquaculture businesses. (2) Application procedures. Applicants shall submit an application for a Home Occupation Permit to the Building Inspector. The Building Inspector may grant a permit if it is reasonably concluded from the evidence that the proposed home occupation will meet the standards set out in Section 174-25.1.D. Staff will review the application and the applicant will be notified of the decision of the Department following the procedures specified for plan reviews in Subsection 174-24.B. The decision of the Building Inspector may be appealed to the Zoning Board of Appeals within 30 days of the notification if the applicant is aggrieved. (3) There shall be no outdoor storage of materials or equipment except that outdoor storage of materials for water-dependent uses such as lobster pots and shellfish