Pocatello, ID Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

Pocatello controls customer traffic at home-based businesses with a fixed vehicle count rather than a time or trip limit. Section 17.06.400.B.7 requires sales and services to patrons to be arranged so that no more than two patron vehicles are on the premises at any one time, a cap that applies regardless of how many total customers the business serves in a day; the operator has to schedule or stagger visits so the count on site never exceeds two vehicles. The same set of standards addresses the delivery side of customer and supply traffic: § 17.06.400.B.8 requires delivery vehicles serving a home occupation to meet all truck route regulations of the code, which keeps larger commercial delivery trucks on their designated routes rather than cutting through residential streets to reach a home business.

Both limits sit inside the broader intent test in § 17.06.400.A, which already bars any home occupation from unduly increasing traffic on its street, so a business generating more than the two-vehicle patron limit or routing deliveries off the approved truck routes fails the ordinance twice over, both on the specific numeric standard and on the general traffic-impact criterion. Section 17.06.400.B.4 layers on a related restriction: no oversized vehicle, or any vehicle required by Idaho law to carry commercial or apportioned plates, may be parked or stored on site or on the street while conducting the home occupation, which further limits the kind of vehicle traffic a home business can generate.