Inglewood, CA Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

4 sets the operating conditions a resident must meet to keep a Planning and Building Department Director-issued home occupation authorization. Subsection (g) bars any home business from generating vehicular or pedestrian traffic to the residence beyond what a normal residential use would produce, which the Director applies when reviewing the home occupation questionnaire filed with the Business Tax Certificate registration. Subsection (h) goes further and states the home occupation will not require additional on-site parking spaces, meaning a business that needs dedicated customer parking does not qualify.

Subsection (i) closes the loop on client visits: no sales or delivery of merchandise to a customer can happen on the premises at all, with a single exception for merchandise that is wholly fabricated on site, such as a craftsperson selling a piece finished in their own garage workshop. 2 requirement that a home occupation stay incidental and secondary to residential use, occupy no more than 100 square feet total, and employ no one but a permanent resident of the home. 9. A denied or revoked applicant must stop operating immediately and cannot refile the same request at the same address for a full year.