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Running a business from home in Oxnard

Noncoastal home businesses may use at most 25% of one floor, with no customers except one-at-a-time tutoring, and only resident employees.

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Key points

Home businesses: Noncoastal home businesses may use at most 25% of one floor, with no customers except one-at-a-time tutoring, and only resident employees.

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What Oxnard's code says

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Space used	At most 25% of the gross area of one floor of the home or accessory building. Applies: Applies to non-coastal home businesses indoors; required parking may not be displaced. § 16-403 · code text The area used for a home occupation shall not exceed 25% of the gross area of one floor of the dwelling or accessory building. At most 25% of the gross area of one floor of the home. Applies: Applies to coastal home businesses, held indoors in one room; accessory-structure limits and a horticulture exception apply. § 17-55 · code text A home occupation shall be conducted indoors and confined completely to one room within the dwelling, which room shall not occupy an area equivalent to more than 25% of the gross area of one floor of the dwelling.
Customer visits	No customers or clients may visit. Applies: Applies to non-coastal home businesses; one-on-one music or academic tutoring is excepted. § 16-403 · code text Customers or clients of the home occupation shall not call upon the premises arriving either by vehicle or as pedestrians, with the exception of individual tutorial instruction including music or academic lessons limited to no more than one person at any time subject to the other provisions of this section. No more than 1 person at a time. Applies: Applies to one-on-one music or academic tutoring in non-coastal home businesses. § 16-403 · code text Customers or clients of the home occupation shall not call upon the premises arriving either by vehicle or as pedestrians, with the exception of individual tutorial instruction including music or academic lessons limited to no more than one person at any time subject to the other provisions of this section.
Employees	No employees other than residents of the home. Applies: Applies to non-coastal home businesses; babysitters and domestic staff do not count as employees. § 16-403 · code text No employees other than residents of the dwelling shall be allowed in connection with a home occupation, except that babysitters or domestic staff shall not be considered employees of a home occupation.
Permit	A home occupation permit approved by the director. Applies: Applies to home businesses in a home in the coastal zone. § 17-55 · code text The conduct of a home occupation requires the approval of a home occupation permit by the director, who may establish additional conditions to further the intent of the Oxnard coastal land use plan. The permit requires the property owner's written approval for rented premises. Applies: Applies to non-coastal home businesses on rental property. § 16-403 · code text The applicant for a permit for a home occupation that is to be conducted on rental property shall submit the property owner's written authorization for the proposed use prior to the issuance of a home occupation permit.
Businesses not allowed	Sale of alcohol, explosives, hazardous wastes, or firearms involving storage of those items within a structure Applies: Chapter 16 noncoastal home occupations § 16-404 · code text Sale of alcohol, explosives, hazardous wastes, or firearms which involve the storage of such items within a structure are prohibited as home occupations.

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Noncoastal home businesses may use at most 25% of one floor, with no customers except one-at-a-time tutoring, and only resident employees.

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