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Running a business from home in Riverside

Home offices may not have customer or client visits, and home instruction is limited to 1 pupil at a time (city rule).

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Key points

  • Home businesses: Home offices may not have customer or client visits, and home instruction is limited to 1 pupil at a time (city rule).

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

What Riverside's code says

Riverside code What Riverside's code adds
Customer visits
  • No customers or clients may visit the site.
    Applies: Business, professional and sales offices, unless the code allows otherwise.
    § 19.485.030 · code text
    Business, professional and sales offices, excluding medical, dental and similar uses that involve regular patient visits to the site, provided that no retail sales transactions are made on the premises and that no customers or clients visit the site, except as specifically allowed by this section.
  • Only 1 student at a time.
    Applies: Lessons in academics, music, voice, art, dance or similar activities.
    § 19.485.030 · code text
    Instruction in academia, music, voice, art, dance or similar activities with no more than one pupil receiving instruction at any given time.
Businesses not allowed
  • medical, dental and similar uses that involve regular patient visits to the site
    Applies: business, professional and sales offices
    § 19.485.030 · code text
    Business, professional and sales offices, excluding medical, dental and similar uses that involve regular patient visits to the site, provided that no retail sales transactions are made on the premises and that no customers or clients visit the site, except as specifically allowed by this section.
  • cabinet making
    Applies: home crafts
    § 19.485.030 · code text
    Home crafts, such as model making, rug weaving, quilting and needlework, lapidary work and wood working, limited to the uses of tools and equipment commonly available for personal residential use, but specifically excluding cabinet making.

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Frequently asked questions

Can I run a business from my home in Riverside?

Home offices may not have customer or client visits, and home instruction is limited to 1 pupil at a time (city rule).

General information, not legal advice.

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