Bonneville County, ID Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

Section 156.126(F)(6) directly restricts client traffic for home occupations: "Home occupations with visiting clientele shall have business activity only between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m." That curfew sits alongside the section's parking requirement in paragraph (4), which requires adequate off-street parking for business vehicles and any visiting clientele, so a home business drawing customers to the property must show it can park them off the public road rather than along the shoulder. The clientele-hours rule is one piece of a broader nuisance backstop in paragraph (5), which bars the business from generating odors, smoke, dust, heat, fumes, light, glare, sound, vibration, or radio and television interference beyond what an ordinary home would produce, meaning a home business could still be cited for excessive visitor noise or traffic congestion outside the curfew hours even if it never runs past 7:00 p.m.

Because these standards sit in the permitted-use list for the A-1 Zone rather than requiring a separate conditional use permit, a business that stays within the visiting-hours window and the vehicle and building limits in the rest of Section 156.126(F) can operate without additional county sign-off, but exceeding the hours or overwhelming available off-street parking converts it into a zoning violation.