Carver County, MN Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

073(C) directly limits how much customer traffic a home occupation can generate. Subsection (6) requires that any additional parking need created by the home occupation be met with off-street parking, capped at three spaces, and that parking cannot sit within the actual or prescriptive road right-of-way. Subsection (8) adds a hard client cap for professional-service-type occupations: if the occupation is a professional service, including hair salons and dog grooming, clients on the premises cannot exceed three at any one time, and incidental supplies used in the service, such as shampoo, are not counted as stock-in-trade.

These traffic controls sit alongside the occupation's other constraints, no exterior changes to the residence, no more than one non-family employee, no outdoor display of goods, and only one home-occupation vehicle stored on site, which together are meant to keep a home-based business from generating the level of vehicle and visitor traffic typical of a standalone commercial use. Because the client and parking caps are stated as firm numeric limits rather than discretion left to a reviewer, a home business that draws more than three simultaneous clients, or that needs more than three parking spaces, exceeds what is permitted as a home occupation and would need to seek a different zoning approval such as a conditional use permit or relocate to a commercially zoned parcel.