Eugene, OR Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- Freight delivery cap
- No more than twice a week
- Employee cap
- 2 non-resident employees per dwelling
- Business vehicle cap
- 1 vehicle per home occupation
- Worker dispatch
- Dwelling can't be a dispatch headquarters
- Governing section
- EC 9.5350(5), (7)-(9)
Summary
Eugene's EC 9.5350 Home Occupation Standards cap the traffic a home business can generate: it can't create excessive traffic, glare, heat or emissions perceptible beyond the property, freight deliveries are capped at twice a week, and the dwelling can't be used to assemble or dispatch workers to other job sites.
(5) The home occupation shall not generate excessive traffic, glare, heat, electromagnetic interference or other emissions that are perceptible beyond the home occupation property. There shall not be regular freight truck delivery more than twice a week. ... (7) The dwelling shall not be used as headquarters for the assembly of workers for instruction or other purposes, including dispatch to other locations.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 20739, passed June 8, 2026).
Full Breakdown
5350(5) is the operative traffic rule: a home occupation "shall not generate excessive traffic, glare, heat, electromagnetic interference or other emissions that are perceptible beyond the home occupation property," and regular freight truck deliveries are capped at twice a week. 5350(10). 5350(11)). 5350(1) and (3)). Garage sales limited to 3 consecutive days up to 3 times a year, and licensed day cares, are exempt from the home occupation standards entirely.
Violations & Fines
A home business that draws more traffic than EC 9.5350(5) allows, runs more than twice-weekly freight deliveries, or exceeds the vehicle and employee caps is a land use code violation. Under EC 9.0275(2) that carries a fine of up to $1,000 per day the violation continues, or up to 100 days in jail, or both, on top of any administrative civil penalty under EC 9.0270 and possible permit revocation.
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