Skokie, IL Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

Section 118-91(b)(7) of the Skokie Village Code is the specific patron traffic rule inside the Village's home occupation ordinance. It requires that any sales or services a home occupation provides to patrons be arranged by appointment, ruling out unscheduled walk-in customers, and that appointments be scheduled so that no more than one patron vehicle is parked on the property at any given time. The rule works alongside the occupation's other conditions in Section 118-91(b): staffing capped at one non-resident worker, floor area capped at 15 percent of the principal building, and a bar on exterior display of goods.

Together they are meant to keep a home business indistinguishable from a residence to a passerby, so a driveway or curb lined with client cars, or appointments that overlap and back up, is itself evidence the occupation has grown beyond what Section 118-91 allows. Because the section governs every home occupation Village-wide, from a tutoring business to a hair stylist working from a spare room, the appointment-only, one-vehicle rule applies regardless of the residential zoning district, whether R1 Single-Family or R4 Multifamily Housing. There is no numeric cap stated for total appointments in a day; the limiting factor is strictly how many patron vehicles can be present on the property at the same time.