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Can I profit or will I suffer from discovery that my rural home is on a residential block zoned industrial? (SE Washington state)

I inherited a free and clear one story 3 bedroom home on .5 acres on the edge of a town of 400 in the middle of grain fields. It's 15 miles from a university city to the north and a larger city on a major river to the south. East and west is farm land. Farm land abuts the back of my property. A north south state highway is three blocks from me.

The street I'm on is filled with homes on each side of the street.

North of me and directly across is a volunteer fire station and town maintenance guys building

Recently a family moved in to a beautiful home on one acre next to the town maintenance building.

I noticed the huge side yard being destroyed by his large trucks and trailers being driven onto that side yard and stored there. He also cut down all the fir and deciduous trees. I inquired about it to the one person town hall clerk. I was told he was fine because his land was zoned industrial.

I then learned my lot is zoned industrial also. In fact, my entire single family home block is zoned industrial.

I run a home based online business. I am a widow and I need to make more money.

I have been thinking about this discovery and if I can use it to my advantage.

I got the few pages of zoning from the tiny website the town has. All things that can be done in residential can also be done in commercial and industrial but commercial allows for business and no set back .. industrial allows for any industrial uses not forbidden by law.

Link to zoning: http://coltonwashington.us/ordinances.html

Fast read those zoning docs!

Does anybody have any warnings for me as I brain storm on how to use this zoning discovery to my advantage? I keep thinking that this could open doors to a lot of new ways to use my half acre to make money but I wonder if my naivete is going to get me into trouble somehow.

Thanks in advance for any words.

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