Redding, CA Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

110(A)(7) of the Redding Municipal Code makes client visits the exception, not the rule, for a home occupation. Customers or clients are not permitted at the residence at all unless they are receiving educational, therapeutic, or counseling services, and even then no more than two clients may receive service at any one time. A cottage food operation gets a separate carve-out: under Health and Safety Code Section 113758, direct sales of cottage food products may occur from the home. Subsection (A)(9) backs this with a traffic ceiling that applies regardless of the type of home occupation: the business cannot generate vehicular or pedestrian traffic beyond what is normal for a residential district, and it can never require parking more than one additional vehicle at any one time beyond what the household would ordinarily use.

Read together, these standards mean a Redding home occupation cannot function as a walk-in retail storefront, a repeat-client salon serving several customers back to back, or any business drawing a steady stream of visitors and cars to a residential street. 15 from the Development Services Director, but that relief is tied to the special-review provision for a demonstrated physical disability under subsection (B), not available on request for ordinary business growth.