Bloomington, IL Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

A(6) of the zoning code, which bars a home occupation, other than activities tied to the site's principal permitted use or a permitted accessory roadside stand, from creating pedestrian, automobile, or truck traffic significantly in excess of the normal amount of the district it sits in. The next two paragraphs back that up with concrete limits. A(7) allows, outside the Agricultural District, only one truck of up to one ton of capacity on the site in connection with the home occupation, and requires that the dwelling keep the full number of off-street parking spaces otherwise required under Article XII, Off-Street Parking and Loading; running a home business cannot shrink that count.

A(8) reinforces the traffic limit from the delivery side: except for the site's principal permitted use or a roadside stand, a home occupation cannot sell commodities or render services that require receiving or delivering merchandise, goods, or equipment by anything other than ordinary mail or parcel post. A(9) closes the loop on customer and worker volume by allowing only a resident of the dwelling to work on-site or report to work there, so no outside staff can add to the trip count. Together these paragraphs cap a home business's footprint on neighborhood streets at what an ordinary house on that block would generate, without naming a specific trip count or customer-per-day ceiling.