Norman, OK Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

NCC 36-564 folds a hard traffic cap into its home-occupation checklist: the use "may increase vehicular traffic flow and parking by no more than one additional vehicle at a time," a limit written to keep a home-based business from turning a residential street into overflow parking for customers or deliveries. The code carves out one named exception for personal-service businesses that inherently draw walk-in customers: a beauty shop, barber shop, or other personal service salon or establishment may have up to two customer vehicles parked on the home occupation premises, or close by, at any one time, roughly double the general cap because those uses see customers arrive and leave on a schedule rather than idling for a delivery.

Both figures apply on top of, not instead of, the occupation's other conditions, meaning a salon still has to stay within one room or 25 percent of a floor, run without employees, and avoid noise, dust, odor or activity that reaches beyond the lot. A home occupation that routinely draws more traffic than these caps allow no longer fits the accessory-use definition and needs a different zoning path, such as a home-based business rezoning or special use review, rather than continuing to operate as of right in the residential district.