Caddo Parish, LA Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

UDC Section 7.3.O.9 sets a hard cap on foot traffic at a home-based business: 'No more than four clients, patients, pupils, or customers are permitted at any given time. Such visits must occur between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. and must be by appointment only.' That means walk-in visitors are not allowed at all under the standard home occupation rules, regardless of how many people are on site; every visit has to be scheduled in advance and has to fall within the twelve-hour daytime window.

The traffic limit works alongside a broader restriction in Section 7.3.O.7, which requires that a home-based business not create greater vehicular or pedestrian traffic than is normal for a residential area and not create a traffic hazard or nuisance in the public right-of-way. Together, the two rules mean a home business generating steady client visits, deliveries, or parked cars beyond what a typical house on the block would see is out of compliance even if it stays under the four-visitor cap at any given moment. Certain home businesses face an even tighter version of the same idea: Section 7.3.O.10 limits a home-based barber or beauty shop to one operator, one assistant, one styling chair, and one shampoo bowl, with appointments scheduled one at a time, and requires that use to get a special exception from the Zoning Board of Appeals rather than operating under the general home occupation certificate.