Flagstaff, AZ Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

Flagstaff residents may run a Home Occupation in any residential zone under Section 10-40.60.180 after Community Development issues a Home Occupation Permit, but subsection B.9 specifically targets the traffic clients and deliveries generate. The rule measures actual impact rather than a flat visitor count: the operation cannot be run or advertised in a way that produces more pedestrian or vehicular traffic than is normal for the zone, benchmarked against the current Trip Generation Manual published by the Institute of Transportation Engineers, the same industry reference planners use to model how many vehicle trips a land use produces.

That traffic ceiling works together with several related limits in the same section: no more than one outside employee may come to the residence (B.2), no more than 10 percent of the dwelling's floor area may be used for the business (B.3), no outdoor display of goods is allowed (B.6), and only one vehicle or vehicle-trailer combination under 14,000 pounds GVWR tied to the business may be stored at the home (B.12). A Home Occupation Permit issued under Section 10-20.40.070 can be reviewed and denied by the Director if these standards, including the traffic limit, are not met, and any change in use or a move by the permit holder automatically terminates the existing permit under B.14, requiring a new permit and privilege license before the business can continue.