Murrieta, CA Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- Customer/vendor cap
- 1 on-site at a time
- Hours
- 7 a.m.-7 p.m., Monday-Saturday
- Frequency cap
- 1 visit per 2-hour period
- Tutoring exception
- 6 students at once, 18/day max
- Parking
- Required residential off-street parking maintained
Summary
Murrieta caps home-based businesses at one customer or vendor on-site at a time, only between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, under Section 16.60.050(K)(1). Visits can't happen more than once every two hours, though a music, academics, dance, swimming or tennis tutoring home occupation gets a wider allowance.
K. Maximum number of customers and vendors. 1. Home occupations may have a maximum of one customer or vendor on the premises at any one time, between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Home occupations shall not host customers or vendors on the premises more frequently than one customer or vendor within a 2-hour time period. 2. Home occupations involving tutoring students in music, academics, dance swimming or tennis at a residence may have a maximum of six non-resident students at any one time, and no more than 18 non-resident students during any one day. Sports related tutoring may be conducted between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-23: A Codification of the General Ordinances of the City of Murrieta, California through Ord. 634-26, passed 7-7-2026).
Full Breakdown
, Monday through Saturday, and it cannot host customers or vendors more frequently than once within any two-hour period. , Monday through Saturday window. These traffic caps sit alongside the general rule in subsection (E) that a home occupation cannot generate vehicular or pedestrian traffic beyond what is normal for the zone, and subsection (F), which requires that the dwelling's required residential off-street parking remain available despite the added visits. 090 to confirm the customer counts and hours are being followed.
Violations & Fines
Hosting more than one customer or vendor at a time, or scheduling visits closer together than the two-hour spacing required by Section 16.60.050(K)(1), breaches the permit conditions and exposes the operator to permit revocation by the Planning Director. Tutoring businesses that exceed six students at once or eighteen in a day violate subsection (K)(2). Permit actions can be appealed under Chapter 16.78.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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