Fort Worth, TX Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

A(a)(4) doesn't set a hard trip-count cap; it sets a reasonableness test tied to the dwelling's residential surroundings. A home business can't generate vehicular traffic in greater volumes than would reasonably be expected in the residential neighborhood, and any parking must comply with the city's general parking ordinances. The standard defines unreasonable parking or traffic as activity whose character, intensity and duration substantially interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of private homes by persons of ordinary sensibilities, language drawn from nuisance law. The section builds in a defense: a defendant cited for excess traffic can argue at trial that the parking or traffic was reasonable under the totality of the circumstances existing in that specific neighborhood, so enforcement is fact-specific rather than a bright-line trip count.

If residents flag a problem, the ordinance gives them a direct escalation path: on request, a representative of the transportation and public works department reviews the traffic impacts, and can refer the matter to the city's traffic management program for further study or mitigation. The same section caps headcount at the source: employees combined with resident family members and on-site customers can't exceed the number of people the dwelling unit is permitted to hold, so a home business drawing steady client visits is capped by the house itself rather than by a separate customer-count table. The rule sits inside Chapter 4, Article 6's home occupation use standards and applies citywide, regardless of the base zoning district.