Mount Prospect, IL Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

Section 14.307 of the Village Code sets two connected traffic standards for home occupations in the Village of Mount Prospect.

Standard F governs customers. No home occupation can generate customer, client or group visits of a greater frequency than what would be expected in a residential area where no home occupation exists. The code does not print a visits-per-day number; the benchmark is an ordinary residential street. Any need for parking generated by the home occupation has to be provided on site and cannot exceed the required parking for a dwelling unit. The stated purpose is to limit the frequency of customer or client visits to an amount that is not disruptive to a neighborhood and to eliminate congestion on public streets.

Standard E governs employees and is the stricter of the two. No person can be employed other than a member of the immediate family residing in the dwelling unit, and no employees other than persons residing on the premises can report to work at or near the premises, whether the work is done inside the residence or the employee is dispatched to a job elsewhere. The code says this ensures no nonresident comes to a dwelling for employment purposes and minimizes the traffic generated. No routine attendance of employees associated with any home occupation is allowed at the premises. The code defines routine attendance as the conduct of the home occupation requiring nondomiciled persons to visit the premises as part of its regular conduct, without regard to the number, frequency or duration of the visits, and it applies irrespective of any business activity actually taking place at the dwelling unit.

Related standards keep the traffic footprint small. No loading or unloading of equipment or materials can be done on the premises, and no commercial contracting trailer can be parked there. Private instruction is capped at no more than three pupils at a time.