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

100 (Home Occupations) requires a home occupation permit from community planning and development before running any business out of a residence. Subsection (e)(1)(I) sets the baseline rule for most home occupations: no sales room or office open to customers or clients, and no customers, clients, or students may come to the home at all, unless a specific carve-out elsewhere in the section applies. Subsection (e)(1)(F) separately bars a home occupation from generating pedestrian or vehicle traffic beyond the normal amount for the zoning district. The main carve-out is instructional and educational services, tutoring, music, art, language, or swim lessons, which may host visitors under subsection (f): a maximum of two clients or students per hour, excluding guardians, and six per day.

m. on Saturday, with no client visits permitted on Sunday at all, and appointments must be scheduled in advance with no walk-in business. Swim lessons additionally require the pool to sit inside an enclosed accessory structure meeting county health and electrical code standards. A higher-volume tier, up to five students per hour and thirty-five per day, is available only through a conditional use permit rather than an administrative permit, and requires primary access from a collector or arterial street, a minimum three-hundred-foot separation from another instructional home occupation, and a fifteen-minute gap between classes. m.