Frisco, TX Home Business: Zoning & Home Occupation Permits (2026)

' Subsection a requires the business to be conducted entirely within the main building unless the section specifically permits otherwise, ruling out running a business from a detached garage, shed, or the yard. Subsection b bars any exterior sign that the house holds a business: no advertising, signs, smoke, dust, noise, fumes, glare, vibration, or electrical disturbance detectable at the lot line, no outdoor storage of equipment or vehicles, no storage of hazardous materials, and no separate entrance built for customers. Subsection c requires the use to stay 'clearly incidental and secondary' to the residential use, and subsection d caps outside staff at two employees who are not occupants of the residence.

Subsection h then lists the occupations Frisco allows under these standards: accountants, architects, attorneys, engineers, real estate agents, clergy, sales representatives who do not transact business on-site, artists and craftspeople, tutors capped at three pupils, swim instructors capped at six pupils, small-appliance repair excluding anything with an internal combustion engine, licensed child-care homes, internet businesses, and small-scale food production of non-potentially-hazardous goods like breads and jams. A home occupation legally operating before the ordinance's effective date that no longer conforms is grandfathered as a legal nonconforming use under subsection l.