Garland, TX Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

61(A)(2), defines a 'no-impact home-based business' with a four-part test, and two of those parts control customer and client traffic directly. First, the business's total number of employees and clients or patrons present on the property at any time cannot exceed the municipal occupancy limit set for that property, tying customer volume to the same occupancy figure used for building and fire code compliance. Second, the business cannot generate on-street parking or a substantial increase in traffic through the area, a standard aimed at businesses that draw a steady stream of client vehicles to a residential street.

The other two prongs of the same definition require that none of the business's activities be visible from the street and that the business not substantially increase noise or violate the City's noise ordinance. 61(B) makes the stakes clear: a home-based business is prohibited outright unless it operates as a no-impact home-based business, so a business that draws too many client vehicles or spills parking onto the street loses its lawful status entirely rather than facing a lesser citation. 902, cross-referenced in the same subsection, supplies the state-law definition of 'home-based business' the City's rule builds on.