Casper, WY Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

Subsection A of Casper Municipal Code § 17.12.140 folds customer and vehicle traffic into the core test for whether a home business can keep operating: the use must be "incidental and secondary to residential occupancy," cause "no change in the outside appearance of the building or premises," and must not employ equipment or a process creating dust, smoke, glare or excessive noise, cross-referenced to the noise chapter at § 8.20 of the code, and, critically, must not create "traffic attraction" beyond what other residential properties in the neighborhood generate.

The same sentence separately bars outside storage or display of merchandise, exterior building alterations, window displays, construction equipment or machinery kept outside, and parking large vehicles such as wreckers, trucks, or semi-trucks and trailers at the property, and closes with a catch-all against "other disturbing influences greater than those of other residential properties in the neighborhood." Off-street parking for the home occupation itself has to meet the standard parking table in § 17.12.080, so a business that needs client parking cannot simply use the street.

Because the traffic and disturbance test is comparative rather than numeric, it does not fix a customer-visit count; instead § 17.12.140(B) gives neighbors a complaint path when they believe a specific home business's traffic exceeds what an ordinary house on the block generates, putting the planning director and a zoning enforcement officer in charge of substantiating it before any hearing.