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BZA approves home‑office exception for Tuck Cup inventor with limits on in‑person sales
Summary
Taylor Wilson was granted a special‑exception home‑occupation at 1901 Burns Road for administrative work related to the Tuck Cup product; the board prohibited selling and delivering medical supplies from the residence and limited on‑site storage.
The North Augusta Board of Zoning Appeals on Feb. 4 voted unanimously to grant a special‑exception home‑occupation to Taylor Wilson at 1901 Burns Road to operate administrative and sample‑management functions for a patented product called the Tuck Cup.
The board approved the request with two conditions: the home may be used only as the business address and for administrative work, and no medical supplies may be sold and delivered to customers from the residence. The board closed the public hearing and approved the special exception on a unanimous vote.
Planning staff described the proposal as a home‑based administrative office for a start‑up product. Staff said all sales and client meetings will occur at health‑care facilities, not at the residence; samples would be taken to facilities for demonstrations and "lunch‑and‑learn" presentations. Staff told the board the product is manufactured offsite and that samples would be delivered to the applicant in boxes; the applicant said boxes would likely contain about 100 cups each and would be stored inside the house, limited to a single room.
Taylor Wilson, owner and sole employee, told the board the Tuck Cup is a flexible, patented urine specimen cup designed so women may provide samples without aiming. "Tuck Cup is a patented product and is flexible urine specimen cup that does not require aiming in order to give a sample, making it less messy for women to give a sample," Wilson said. She said the home office would be used for emails, phone calls and scheduling and that no customers would come to the residence.
During discussion the board added a clarification to staff’s recommended second condition so the restriction would prevent in‑person sales or deliveries to customers at the residence. The final language recorded in the motion read that "no medical supplies will be sold and delivered to customers from 1901 Burns Road." The board made the motion based on staff findings that the use meets the code’s special‑exception criteria and the home‑occupation standards in Section 5.3.7.
The motion to grant ZE25‑001 was made by Kevin Skaggs and seconded by Kathy Stallworth; the vote was unanimous. The approval allows Wilson to maintain administrative operations and a limited inventory of sample boxes at the residence for use in off‑site demonstrations but does not permit customer pick‑up or on‑site medical supply sales and deliveries.
