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Running a business from home in Palos Verdes Estates

Home occupations may use at most 200 square feet, including storage, and only residents or immediate family may work there.

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Key points

  • Home businesses: Home occupations may use at most 200 square feet, including storage, and only residents or immediate family may work there.

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

What Palos Verdes Estates's code says

Palos Verdes Estates code What Palos Verdes Estates's code adds
Space used
  • No more than 200 square feet of floor area.
    Includes space used for business storage.
    § 18.42.030 · code text
    No more than two hundred square feet of floor area may be used in connection with a home occupation or for storage purposes in connection with a home occupation.
Customer visits
  • No more than what is normal and reasonable for a home.
    Applies: For visitors, customers and deliveries.
    § 18.42.030 · code text
    Visitors, customers or deliveries shall not exceed that normally and reasonably occurring for a residence.
Employees
  • Only residents of the home or their immediate family.
    Applies: For employees working at the home.
    § 18.42.030 · code text
    The only employees of the home occupation permitted at the residential unit shall be the resident(s) of such unit or members of the resident’s immediate family.
Permit
  • An approved application and payment of the home occupation license tax.
    Applies: For home occupations in the R-1 and R-M zones.
    § 18.42.030 · code text
    Home occupations are permitted in the R-1 and R-M zones if such uses are established and at all times maintained consistent with the following criteria, and following approval of an application as provided in PVEMC § 18.42.040 and payment of the applicable home occupation license tax.
Businesses not allowed
  • any proposed use not permitted in the C zone
    Applies: home occupations in the R-1 and R-M zones
    § 18.42.030 · code text
    The proposed use is permitted in the C zone.

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Home occupations may use at most 200 square feet, including storage, and only residents or immediate family may work there.

General information, not legal advice.

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