Santa Clarita, CA Home Business: Zoning & Home Occupation Permits (2026)

020 lists the categories eligible for one: telecommuting, business or professional offices that see no client visits, instruction limited to five pupils at a time and two incidental vehicles, artists, authors and composers, dressmaking and tailoring, home crafts using ordinary residential tools, and off-site direct-sales distribution businesses. 040 then sets the operating standards: only one home occupation is allowed per dwelling unit; the business must be conducted entirely inside the dwelling, and no permanent work area may be built inside the required ten-by-twenty-foot garage parking space; only residents of the home may work in the business; no goods may be sold on the premises; the required residential off-street parking must stay available; and no vehicles, trailers or construction equipment beyond what is normal for a residence may be kept on site.

m. on weekends, with none permitted on holidays. The Director can attach additional conditions under subsection (Q), and under subsection (P) the permit becomes void the moment the use turns into a nuisance or violates any law, at which point the business must cease operating.