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

060 treats client traffic as one of the operating standards a home-based business must meet to keep its city business license, and subsection (C)(9) sets the default at zero on-site visits: the home occupation shall involve no on-site clients except in three named situations. The first exception covers home occupations located in designated live/work units, a housing type built specifically to combine residence and workspace. The second lets a home-based tutor or instructor see children by appointment, recognizing that in-home tutoring is one of the office-only uses the code otherwise allows as a home occupation.

The third accommodates an applicant with a demonstrated mobility handicap, letting clients come to that person's home rather than requiring the resident to travel to them. 060(B). The client ban works alongside the section's broader visibility rule, which bars any home occupation from being visible from the street or from neighboring residential properties, and its signage rule, which allows only a one-square-foot name plate and no advertising signage, reinforcing that a home occupation is meant to look, sound, and function like an ordinary residence from the outside.