Little Rock, AR Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- Traffic standard
- No more than normal for the neighborhood
- Permit trigger
- Accessory use permit for non-listed occupations
- Applies in
- R-1 through R-6 residential zoning districts
- Enforcement
- Planning Commission can revoke, license pulled
- Non-resident staff
- Needs separate Board of Adjustment approval
Summary
Little Rock caps home-based businesses to normal residential traffic and parking, bars street-visible product display, and requires an accessory use permit for anything not on the city's pre-approved list.
(6) Home occupation. a. Home occupations shall be permitted that will not: 1. Change the outside appearance of the dwelling or provide product display visible from the street. 2. Generate traffic, parking, sewage or water use in excess of what is normal in the residential neighborhood. 3. Create a hazard to persons or property, result in electric interference or become a nuisance. 4. Result in outside storage or display of any material or product.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 83).
Full Breakdown
Little Rock's zoning code allows home occupations as an accessory use in residential districts, but Sec. 36-253 limits them so they cannot generate traffic, parking, sewage, or water use beyond what's normal for the neighborhood, and bars product display visible from the street. Occupations not on the pre-approved list (tutoring, catering, sewing, computer programming, etc.) need an accessory use permit from the Department of Planning and Development, with appeals to the Board of Adjustment. Hiring employees who don't live in the home requires separate Board of Adjustment approval before permits issue.
Violations & Fines
Generating excess traffic or parking, or operating without a required accessory use permit, lets the Planning Commission revoke the home occupation approval; the city finance department is notified and the business license is pulled.
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