Inglewood, CA Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

4(m), part of the home occupation conditions the Planning and Building Department Director enforces through the Business Tax Certificate application, prohibits any commercial telephone directory, newspaper, magazine, radio or television advertisement from specifically stating the home's residential address. A business can still advertise its services and phone number, but not the street address, and clients are limited to visiting on a prior appointment basis arranged by phone rather than walking in off the street. This dovetails with subsection (a), which requires the home occupation to remain clearly incidental and secondary to residential use without changing the residential character of the premises, and with subsection (o)'s separate rule for home child care, which bars any playground structure or exterior alteration visible from the street that would create a recognizable distinction between the child care home and its neighbors.

Together these subsections function as Inglewood's home-business signage policy: no address-revealing advertising, no walk-in trade, and no visible exterior marker that turns a residence into a recognizable place of business. 9, and the operator must stop the activity immediately upon notice of revocation, subject to an appeal to the Planning Commission.