Ridgecrest, CA Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- § 106-31(a)(4), Home occupations
- Standard
- Traffic capped at normal residential level
- Clients allowed
- Yes, for purchases or services
- Enforced by
- City planning department, via permit
Summary
Ridgecrest lets home-based businesses invite customers and clients to the residence, but only up to the level of traffic normally expected from an ordinary residential use.
Retail sales at the residence and services performed at the residence for persons who have come to the residence for such services shall be limited to no more traffic than that normally occasioned by a residential use. Customers, clients, or prospective customers or clients may be invited to the residence for the purpose of purchasing or obtaining or considering the purchasing or obtaining of merchandise, wares, goods, equipment or service, subject to the above limitation.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 6).
Full Breakdown
Under Ridgecrest City Code § 106-31(a)(4), a permitted home occupation may host retail sales and services performed for customers who come to the house, and may invite clients or prospective customers to purchase, obtain, or consider goods or services, but that activity is capped at no more traffic than a residential use would normally generate. The planning department reviews this limit when issuing the home occupation permit under Section 106-31(a), and a use generating more customer traffic than an ordinary house on the block would not qualify.
Violations & Fines
Exceeding normal residential traffic levels breaches the home occupation permit conditions under Sec. 106-31; the planning director can find noncompliance and the city council may revoke the home occupation permit after notice and a hearing.
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