Plano home occupations cannot generate customer, client, or delivery traffic beyond normal residential levels. On-site retail, group classes, and regular client visits that impact parking are prohibited.
Plano's Zoning Ordinance home occupation standards limit on-premises traffic to levels consistent with normal residential use. Businesses that require regular customer, client, student, or patient visits, group classes, or frequent deliveries beyond normal mail and parcel service are prohibited. This effectively bans on-site salons, tutoring centers with multiple students present, retail storefronts, and similar traffic-generating uses from operating out of a home. Occasional client meetings by appointment are generally acceptable for consulting-type businesses, but regular scheduled visits that change the traffic character of the street are not. Parking in the required front yard is prohibited, and commercial deliveries by tractor-trailer are not permitted. HOA rules in Plano neighborhoods frequently add specific caps on client visits per day.
Zoning violation; citation and fine up to $500 per day. City may order the business activity to cease and issue daily penalties until compliance is achieved.
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