Scranton, PA Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

City Code § 445-8 defines 'HOME BASED BUSINESS, NO IMPACT' as an accessory use, capped at two per dwelling, that 'involves no customer, client, or patient traffic, whether vehicular or pedestrian, pickup, delivery, or removal function to or from the premises, in excess of those normally associated with residential use.' The definition's eight numbered requirements go further: the business can employ no one but family members living in the home, cannot display or sell retail goods or stockpile inventory, must show no outside sign of a business including parking, signage, or lighting, cannot run equipment that creates detectable noise, vibration, glare, fumes, or odors, cannot generate solid waste or sewage beyond a normal household's, and is confined to no more than 25% of the home's habitable floor area.

The district tables in § 445-12 make this the only home-business option in the City's single-family districts. The 'Home Based Business, Other' category, defined in the same section and allowed customer visits and limited signage, only shows up as a permitted accessory use in denser districts such as City Neighborhood Mixed Residential (§ 445-12.I) and Conservation, not in Suburban Single-Family Residential (§ 445-12.E) or the City's other single-family tables.