Anaheim, CA Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

020 of the Anaheim Municipal Code draws a bright line for how much activity a home occupation can generate before it stops being a permissible accessory use. The rule bars any significant increase in pedestrian or vehicular traffic tied to the home business, and then defines that trigger with hard numbers rather than leaving it to case-by-case judgment: more than six total vehicles or eight total people arriving in connection with the business on a given day is conclusively deemed a significant increase, no matter how briefly they stay.

That makes the standard self-enforcing for code officers investigating a complaint, since they only need a traffic count, not proof of a broader nuisance. The same section separately caps parked business vehicles at one, and that vehicle must stay inside an enclosed garage rather than in the driveway or on the street, with its own size ceiling of 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, 8 feet of width, 7 feet of height and 21 feet of bumper-to-bumper length. Read together with the traffic count, the section is designed to keep client visits, deliveries and service calls at a level indistinguishable from an ordinary household's daily comings and goings, rather than the steady stream of customers a storefront business would draw.