Chula Vista, CA Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

' The default is a hard ban on in-person visits, a home-based tutor, consultant, or seamstress cannot have people come to the house to receive services or pick up goods unless the city has expressly found an exception is warranted for that specific business. This dovetails with subsection I, which separately bars 'direct (in-person) sale of products or services on the premises,' and subsection E, which requires anyone acting as an agent or intermediary between outside suppliers and outside customers to receive, store, and sell 'directly to customers at an off-premises location' rather than at the home.

Together these subsections mean a Chula Vista home occupation is built around off-site delivery of goods and services, mail order, remote consultation, or production for sale elsewhere, not a walk-in storefront. Any operator who wants to bring clients to the house has to apply through the Development Services Department and get an affirmative determination that limited customer traffic is warranted for that particular business before doing so; there is no ministerial right to receive customers at home.