Escondido, CA Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

Section 33-852(l)(2), governing minor home occupations, states flatly that on-site customers are prohibited except as permitted for MEHKOs pursuant to California Health and Safety Code section 113825(a)(3), the narrow microenterprise home kitchen exception. and no more than two per day, again with a separate MEHKO carve-out. Major home occupations, those with some outward sign of commercial activity, are allowed customers under Section 33-853(k): no more than eight clients or customers shall be on the premises in any one day, and Section 33-853(k)(3) makes traffic beyond that threshold, whether from clients, customers or deliveries, prima facie evidence that the activity is a primary business and not a home occupation, which would disqualify it from home-occupation status altogether.

under Section 33-853(k)(5). Both tiers separately require that the home occupation not generate pedestrian or vehicular traffic beyond what the zone customarily sees, under Section 33-852(l)(1) for minor occupations and Section 33-853(k)(1) for major ones.