Puyallup, WA Home Business: Zoning & Home Occupation Permits (2026)

75 PMC conditionally allows limited commercial activity inside residential zones without changing the neighborhood's residential character. 005, no home occupation may be established on RS- or RM-zoned property without a home occupation permit approved by the development services director, or by the hearing examiner if a neighbor objects. 005: it cannot be visible from outside the house or accessory structure, it cannot involve any outside display or storage of materials, merchandise or equipment, and it cannot generate any customer or client vehicle trips at all.

Outside the RS and RM zones, home occupations do not need a permit but are treated as commercial uses for parking and other development standards. 010: the director has 28 days to deem an application complete, then mails notice to every property owner within 150 feet, and a written objection filed within 10 business days triggers reconsideration and a possible hearing examiner appeal. 015(1) limits any home occupation to no more than 25 percent of the total enclosed floor area of the structures on the property, and requires the activity to stay clearly incidental and secondary to the residential use, with retail sales of items not made on site allowed only if clearly incidental to the occupation. 010 are exempt from the floor-area cap.