Skagit County, WA Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

252, and whether clients can visit the property is one of the defining lines between them. Home-Based Business 1, the lightest tier, must meet subsection (3)(f): it 'does not have clients come to the site,' meaning any home business that receives in-person customers, patients or clients cannot operate under this no-visible-signage tier no matter how small its floor area. ' Choosing a client-facing model therefore pushes an operator into the HBB2 or HBB3 category, which carries its own tradeoffs: HBB2 allows business floor area up to 50 percent of the home's living area and one non-illuminated sign up to four square feet, while HBB3 allows up to three additional employees beyond the resident family.

Both client-facing tiers still cannot create a level of traffic or parking demand beyond what's normal for a residential area, under subsections (4)(f) and (5)(f), so client visits are permitted in principle but not unlimited in practice. In the Ag-NRL, IF-NRL, SF-NRL, and RRc-NRL natural resource zones, HBB2 additionally bars any conversion of resource land to accommodate the client-facing business, and HBB3 in those same zones bars both resource-land conversion and new structures for the business.