Redondo Beach, CA Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

22(h)(26), a home occupation license is issued only if the operation "shall not generate pedestrian or vehicular traffic beyond that which is normal to the particular neighborhood," the standard set in condition (g). Condition (h) adds that the home occupation cannot involve the use of commercial vehicles for delivering material to or from the premises, closing off a common workaround for traffic-heavy home businesses. Condition (i) further limits any marked commercial vehicle tied to the business to being parked within the property rather than on the street, since street parking is not authorized for a business vehicle under the broader home occupation rules.

Together these conditions target the two things that turn a home occupation into a de facto commercial operation, namely customer visits and delivery traffic, without imposing a numeric visitor cap the way some cities do. Instead Redondo Beach uses a neighborhood-comparison test: whatever traffic level would be unremarkable on that block is the ceiling, and anything visibly beyond it puts the license at risk. The same section also authorizes only one business vehicle per home occupation and forbids using any garage for anything but parking that single vehicle.