Lancaster County, NE Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

001 allows. Beyond the two-person participant cap, on-site sales are limited primarily to goods grown, manufactured, processed, treated or assembled on the premises, and no more than 50 percent of the residence's floor area may be used for the business when it operates inside the home. Total business floor area across all buildings is capped at 10,000 square feet, and outside work, storage or parking areas are capped at 15,000 square feet, all of it set back at least 200 feet from every property line and visually screened from public streets and neighboring land.

5 tons is allowed on site, with no more than four business vehicles parked outside at once. Critically for customer and visitor traffic, the resolution authorizes the Planning Commission or County Board, in approving the site plan, to establish additional conditions such as hours of business operation and a maximum daily number of non-resident trips to and from the business, tailored to what fits the site and protects neighboring compatibility, health, safety and welfare. That trip cap is set case by case in the special permit rather than fixed county-wide, but the authority to impose it is written directly into the ordinance.