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

120(D)(6) sets the on-site client contact rule for home occupations: no customer or client visits are permitted, full stop, except for personal instruction services like musical instruction, art lessons, or academic tutoring, which may have up to two students on site at one time, and except as separately allowed for cottage food operations under subsection F. 11, which requires that home occupations not generate pedestrian, automobile, or truck traffic inconsistent with the normal level of traffic on the street where the dwelling sits, and not create a need for additional parking or generate delivery volume beyond what's customary for a residence.

A resident running, say, a bookkeeping or consulting business out of the house cannot legally have clients come to the property for meetings; that kind of foot traffic is exactly what the ordinance is written to prevent. The narrow tutoring/instruction exception is capped at two students at a time, so even a permitted instructor cannot host a full class. ) specifically authorizes limited direct-to-public sales for registered Class A cottage food operations.