My son is a professional musician\/composer who is looking to buy a Brooklyn house with a space such as a basement or garage suitable for conversion to a sound-proof home recording studio. In addition to using it to record his own music, he would like to occasionally record other musicians\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfor a fee, of course.<\/p>\n
He’s now found a detached house with a double garage in the back that he thinks could be converted. Two questions: First, is it legal to run this kind of small-scale business out of your home? He is hoping it qualifies as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153home occupation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d under NYC zoning laws. (Zoning of the house is R-5\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnot commercial).<\/p>\n
Second: Will he need an architect and plans to get a permit to convert the garage? He and his carpenter girlfriend will be doing most of the work except for electrical wiring and the outside of the garage will not change except for maybe a couple of vents on the roof. <\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My son is a professional musician\/composer who is looking to buy a Brooklyn house with a space such as a basement or garage suitable for conversion to a sound-proof home recording studio. In addition to using it to record his own music, he would like to occasionally record other musicians\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfor a fee, of course. He’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71917,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-48484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversion"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/09\/garage-to-studi\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Garage to Studio Conversion","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/09\/garage-to-studi\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/09\/garage-to-studi\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Conversion","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"oakwoman"}],"creator":["oakwoman"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-09-13T09:45:09Z","datePublished":"2010-09-13T09:45:09Z","dateModified":"2010-09-13T09:48:28Z"},"rendered":"