Farmersville, TX Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- § 77-29, definition of 'home occupation'
- Traffic standard
- Must not create 'increased traffic' to the property
- Other bars
- No extra employees, no on-site sales, no separate entrance
- Zoning status
- Permitted by right (P) in all residential districts, § 77-46(d)
- Exception district
- Specific use permit required in Central Area District
- Max fine
- $2,000 per day, § 77-91
Summary
A Farmersville home business loses its 'home occupation' status, and the zoning protection that comes with it, the moment it generates increased traffic to the property, under the definition in Code of Ordinances section 77-29.
Home occupation means an occupation carried on in the home by a member of the occupant's family without the employment of additional persons, use of a sign to advertise the occupation, offering any commodity or service for sale on the premises, use of equipment other than that customarily found in a household and which does not create obnoxious noise or other obnoxious conditions to abutting residential property, such as emission of odor, increased traffic or generation of light or smoke, and where the use is carried on in the main structure only and there is not a separate entrance for the use. The term "home occupation" shall specifically exclude the operation of a repair garage, plumbing shop or similar activity.
Full Breakdown
' The use must also stay inside the main structure, with no separate entrance built for it. Because 'increased traffic' is written directly into the definition alongside odor, light and smoke, a home-based business that draws a steady stream of client or delivery vehicles falls outside the home occupation definition entirely, not merely outside some best-practice guideline. The schedule of permitted uses at section 77-46(d) lists home occupation as permitted by right (P) in every residential district, from Agricultural through MF-2, and requires a specific use permit only in the Central Area District; that broad by-right status depends on the underlying activity continuing to meet every element of the section 77-29 definition, traffic included.
The definition further excludes repair garages, plumbing shops or similar activities outright, regardless of traffic generated, because those uses are treated as inherently outside the home occupation category.
Violations & Fines
A home business that generates increased traffic no longer meets the section 77-29 definition of 'home occupation' and loses its by-right status under section 77-46(d); continuing to operate it in a residential district without qualifying use approval is a zoning violation under section 77-91, carrying a fine of up to $2,000 per day the violation continues.
Frequently Asked Questions
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