Yakima County, WA Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

240(2)(e) ties every home business approval to a hard parking ceiling. The Reviewing Official has to find the business will not generate a need for additional customer or employee parking, beyond what the property already needs for other on-site uses, in excess of two additional spaces for a minor home business, two additional spaces for a major home business inside an Urban Growth Area or the RT or RS zones, or four additional spaces for a major home business outside those areas. Any approved parking has to sit in a location that preserves the property's residential character, whether on-street, off-street, or somewhere other than the required front yard setback, and the Reviewing Official signs off on the exact location before the permit issues.

, regardless of the business's own posted hours. That restriction sits alongside subsection (2)(f)'s broader ban on exterior evidence of the business, meaning traffic, headlights, and vehicle activity outside those hours cannot make the property read as anything other than a residence. , is out of compliance with the terms of its own approval and subject to the same enforcement path as any other Title 19 violation.