Clinton Township, MI Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

\" The standard is comparative rather than numeric: the baseline is the ordinary vehicle trips and parking demand of a single-family home, and any home occupation that pushes traffic or parking above that baseline, such as a steady stream of client visits, deliveries, or on-site consultations that require extra vehicles to park on the street or in the yard, fails the condition. The same subsection folds in a broader catch-all barring \"any external effect not normally associated with a single-family use,\" which reaches beyond traffic to cover noise, odor, or visible business activity that would tip a neighbor off that a business is operating at the address.

02(m) conditions, most notably the ban on signage in (6) and the 20% floor-area cap in (5), the traffic and parking limit in (7) is one of the tools the Township uses to keep home occupations invisible from the street. A resident whose home business regularly draws customers to the property risks tipping the use out of compliance even if the business otherwise stays inside the home and under the floor-area cap. 99, which treats any Zoning Code violation, including a home occupation that outgrows this traffic standard, as a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $500, up to 90 days in jail, or both, with each day of the violation counted separately.