Parker, CO Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

Section 13.05.050(d)(6) treats a home occupation as a permitted accessory use in Parker, but only if it meets a list of operation standards in subsection (d)(6)b. Two of those standards directly control foot traffic at the property. First, the home occupation cannot have more than one employee on site at a time, not counting the owner of the home occupation or residents of the dwelling. Second, and more directly aimed at client visits, there cannot be more than two customers or patrons on site at any given time.

Together these numbers keep a home-based business, such as a tutor, hairstylist, or small consulting practice, from generating the parking and traffic impacts of a commercial storefront in a residential neighborhood. The same subsection separately requires the use to stay clearly incidental and secondary to the dwelling's residential character, and bars the operation from generating traffic that significantly affects the residential character of the area or from allowing deliveries of materials or products to the property. Table 13.08.F's parking table lists home occupation parking as "None" in both the standard and Downtown East columns, meaning no additional off-street spaces beyond the dwelling's own parking are required, reinforcing that the two-customer cap is the tool the LDO relies on to control visitor traffic rather than a separate parking formula.