Concord, NC Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- Client visits
- Max 6 per day, 1 visit per client
- Visiting hours
- 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM
- Client vehicles on site
- Maximum 2 at a time
- Lessons exception
- Up to 12 clients/day for music, art, craft
- Parking rule
- Driveway only, no street congestion
Summary
Concord caps home occupation client visits at 6 per day, one visit per client, restricts visiting hours to 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and allows no more than 2 client vehicles on site at once under the Concord Development Ordinance's home occupation performance standards.
Not more than 6 clients/day (limit 1 visit per day per each client) are permitted to visit home occupation. Hours for visits shall be between the 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM. Maximum of 2 client vehicles permitted at the same time (excluding music, art, craft, or similar lessons and childcare). ... Music, art, craft or similar lessons: (12 or fewer clients per day)
Full Breakdown
6-1 of the Concord Development Ordinance sets the client-traffic performance standard that applies to home occupations in the AG district and in all other zoning districts alike: "Not more than 6 clients/day (limit 1 visit per day per each client) are permitted to visit home occupation. Hours for visits shall be between the 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM. Maximum of 2 client vehicles permitted at the same time," with an express carve-out excluding music, art, craft or similar lessons and childcare from the 2-vehicle cap.
S. 110-86(3)b and 110-91(7)b described in the ordinance's daycare provisions. The same table requires parking for home occupation clients to be provided only in the driveway and prohibits it from creating hazards or street congestion, reinforcing the traffic-management purpose behind the visit caps. These standards sit alongside the broader home occupation performance rules in Sec. 3, which require every listed home occupation (accounting, tutoring, catering, a one-chair salon and the like from Sec. 6-1 before the Administrator will issue or renew a Home Occupation Permit.
Violations & Fines
Exceeding six client visits per day, allowing more than one visit per client, hosting clients outside the 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. window, or parking more than two client vehicles on site at once (outside the lessons/childcare exception) is a zoning violation under CDO Sec. 1.5. The Planning and Neighborhood Development Administrator can order the home occupation brought into compliance or shut down, with the Home Occupation Permit subject to lapse for noncompliance.
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