Gulfport, FL Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

Two clauses of Gulfport's home occupation ordinance work together to eliminate visitor traffic. Subsection (d)(6) caps traffic generated by a home occupation at the Pinellas County Metropolitan Planning Organization's Traffic Generation Standard for single-family residential use, and expressly states no additional off-street parking is required as a result, because the code assumes no visitors are coming. Subsection (d)(7) then makes that assumption a flat rule: no customer, client, employee, contractor or agent of the home occupation is permitted on the premises 'at any time,' with no exception for scheduled appointments or short visits.

This pairs with (d)(9), which limits the operation to a single occupation-related vehicle on or near the premises and bars any commercial vehicle from being parked there or on an adjacent right-of-way, and with (d)(5), which bars employing anyone on-site besides resident family members. Together these clauses mean a Gulfport home occupation can serve customers only remotely, by phone, mail or delivery, matching the phone/mail/record-keeping-only allowance carved out in (d)(12).