A home occupation in unincorporated Clay County cannot draw commercial levels of customer or delivery traffic. Client visits and parking must stay at ordinary residential volumes under the Land Development Code. Walk-in retail trade is not a permitted home occupation.
Clay County treats a home occupation as a low-intensity accessory use, so customer and delivery traffic must not exceed what a normal household generates. The Land Development Code limits the intensity of the use; parking for any client visits is met on the lot, not along neighborhood streets, and walk-in retail is not allowed as a home occupation. A new or widened driveway onto a county road needs a separate access permit for sight-distance and drainage. Inside Liberty, Gladstone, and other cities, municipal home-occupation rules set their own visit and parking limits.
Repeated traffic or on-street-parking complaints can trigger review and revocation of a Home Occupation permit, and blocking a county road draws separate enforcement by the sheriff's department.
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