Glenn County, CA Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

020 folds customer traffic into the same list of standards that governs every other part of a home occupation permit. The traffic rule itself is qualitative rather than numeric: the operation "shall not generate pedestrian or vehicular traffic in excess of that customarily associated with the zone in which the use is located," which planning staff apply case by case depending on whether the parcel sits in a residential zone like R1 or RM or an agricultural zone like FA or AE. The code backs that qualitative standard with two concrete numbers.

First, on parking: "a minimum of one (1) parking space shall be provided for any home occupation requiring customers to visit the site," and that space is required in addition to the parking already required for the house itself. Second, on volume: "the number of customers coming to a home occupation shall be limited to five (5) per day," a hard daily cap that applies regardless of how large the parcel is or which zone the home occupation sits in. The same section also restricts maintenance and service vehicles tied to the business, requiring any vehicle bearing advertising for the home occupation, or any maintenance or service vehicle, to be garaged or stored entirely inside a building, and it caps such a vehicle at no more than two axles.

Together the traffic, parking, customer-count and vehicle-storage standards are meant to keep a permitted home business from reading, from the street, as anything more than an ordinary residence.