Simi Valley, CA Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- On-site client cap
- 1 client at a time
- Traffic standard
- No more than normal for the zoning district
- Delivery rule
- No commercial-vehicle deliveries
- Delivery exception
- Parcel service and U.S. mail only
- Enforcement
- Permit condition under § 9-44.090(D)
Summary
Simi Valley home businesses cannot see more than one client on-site at a time and cannot generate any vehicular or foot traffic beyond what is normal for the surrounding residential zone. Deliveries by commercial vehicle are also barred, except for parcel service and U.S. mail.
A. Allowable home occupation activities. A home occupation shall be limited to business and professional services that do not involve the on-site presence of more than one client at a time (except as provided for in the California Child Day Care Facilities Act Title 1596.70). ... 7.The home occupation shall not attract or generate any additional vehicular or foot traffic to the dwelling beyond that which is considered normal for the zoning district in which the home occupation is located. ... 9.The home occupation shall not cause, involve, or result in the use of commercial vehicles for delivery of materials or supplies to or from the premises, excluding parcel service and the United States mail.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 51).
Full Breakdown
090(A) restricts allowable home occupations to business or professional services that do not involve the on-site presence of more than one client at a time, with a narrow exception for licensed child day care under the state Child Day Care Facilities Act. Subsection B(7) reinforces that limit at the traffic-generation level: a home occupation cannot attract or generate any additional vehicular or foot traffic to the dwelling beyond what is considered normal for the zoning district where it operates, whether that traffic is customers, employees, or visitors.
Subsection B(9) closes the delivery gap in that same traffic scheme by barring the use of commercial vehicles to deliver materials or supplies to or from the home business, carving out only parcel service and United States mail. Read together, these three provisions mean a Simi Valley home business cannot function as a walk-in or drive-up storefront: no waiting clients, no fleet of visitors parked on the street, and no box trucks pulling up to unload inventory. 090(F)(2)(b).
Violations & Fines
A home business that draws more than one client at a time, generates traffic beyond what is normal for the zoning district, or receives commercial-vehicle deliveries outside the parcel/mail exception is enforced as a Development Code violation under Chapter 9-78, a misdemeanor or infraction under SVMC § 1-2.01, punishable by up to a $1,000 fine, six months in jail, or both, with the Home Occupation Permit itself subject to Director or Commission revocation for repeated violations.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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