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

Bloomington's Unified Development Ordinance splits home-based activity into two tracks, and customer traffic is the dividing line between them. 030(g)(6)(A)ii, covers activities that create no external visual changes and produce no odors, noise, vibration, or other discernible impacts outside the dwelling, things like drafting, drawing, typing, writing, or working on a telephone, sewing machine, or computer. Those activities skip the certificate of zoning compliance and Conditional Use Approval that every other home occupation needs, but only if three conditions hold, the first of which is that no employees or customers visit or park vehicles on the premises at all.

, a sixteen-hour daily window that applies on top of the certificate of zoning compliance required by subsection (B) and, in Residential districts, the Conditional Use approval required by subsection (C). The hours rule sits alongside other customer-facing limits in the same subsection: outdoor display of goods is banned under (J), direct sales from the property are prohibited except incidental sales tied to a personal service under (K), and no additional driveway may be built to handle the traffic under (L). Multiple home occupations run out of the same dwelling are measured against these customer-visit standards on a combined basis, not business by business, under subsection (H).