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Running a business from home in Culver City

Home businesses get no client visits, except lessons, tutoring and office uses, limited to 3 car visits a day; only residents may work there.

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Key points

  • Home businesses: Home businesses get no client visits, except lessons, tutoring and office uses, limited to 3 car visits a day; only residents may work there.

Each rule below links to the section of the Culver City Municipal Code it was read from, with the code text one click away (checked October 2026). General information, not legal advice.

What Culver City's code says

Culver City code What Culver City's code adds
Customer visits
  • No more than 6 extra vehicle trips (3 car visits) a day.
    Applies: One-on-one art, music and similar lessons, academic tutoring, and office-type uses.
    § 17.400.055 · code text
    which do not generate more than six additional vehicle trips (i.e. three car visits) to the dwelling each day.
  • No customer or client visits.
    Applies: All home businesses except one-on-one art, music and fine-art lessons, academic tutoring and office-type uses.
    § 17.400.055 · code text
    No customer or client visits to the site of a home occupation shall be permitted, except for the activities identified in § 17.400.055.A.1. and § 17.400.055.A.2.
  • No more than 6 extra vehicle trips (3 car visits) a day.
    Applies: A person whose physical or mental impairment prevents independent travel, who invites clients to the home.
    § 17.400.055 · code text
    A physically or mentally impaired individual who is prevented, by the nature of the impairment, from independent travel, may invite clientele, customers, or patrons to the premises to conduct business that do not exceed more than six additional vehicle trips (i.e. three car visits) to the dwelling each day.
Employees
  • No employees working on site other than full-time residents of the home.
    § 17.400.055 · code text
    A home occupation shall have no employees working on the site of the home occupation other than full-time residents of the dwelling.
Businesses not allowed
  • Adult business activities or businesses; businesses involving breeding, grooming, harboring, raising, or training animals; carpentry and cabinet making; dance club or night club; fortune telling; hair, nail, facial, and similar personal care; manufacturing and/or assembly; massage therapy; medical and dental offices, clinics, and laboratories; personal self-storage; plant nursery; retail sales; vehicle repair, upholstery, automobile detailing, and painting; welding and machining; other uses determined by the Director not to be incidental to or compatible with residential activities
    § 17.400.055 · code text
    The following list presents examples of commercial uses that are not incidental to or compatible with residential activities, are suitable only in non-residential zoning districts, and are therefore prohibited:

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Home businesses get no client visits, except lessons, tutoring and office uses, limited to 3 car visits a day; only residents may work there.

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