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Running a business from home in Stanton

Stanton requires a Home Occupation Permit, or a use permit if clients visit, and bans uses such as auto repair and barber shops.

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Key points

  • Home businesses: Stanton requires a Home Occupation Permit, or a use permit if clients visit, and bans uses such as auto repair and barber shops.

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

What Stanton's code says

Stanton code What Stanton's code adds
Permit
  • A Home Occupation Permit is required.
    Applies: Home businesses on the permitted list.
    § 20.515.050 · code text
    The following businesses are permitted upon issuance of a Home Occupation Permit:
  • A Home Occupation Use Permit is required.
    Applies: Making items for sale elsewhere, client visits to the home, or use of a vehicle or special equipment.
    § 20.515.050 · code text
    The following classes or uses may be permitted by a Home Occupation Use Permit:
  • A new Home Occupation Permit is required.
    Applies: When the original permit holder changes the type of home business.
    § 20.515.140 · code text
    A change in the type of home occupation activity (e.g., a change from one allowed activity to another allowed activity) conducted by the original resident/permittee shall also require a new Home Occupation Permit before conducting an allowed home occupation.
Businesses not allowed
  • Auto repair, major or minor; barber shop or beauty parlor; carpentry work; dance instruction; funeral chapel or funeral home; gift shop; medical or dental offices, clinics or hospitals; painting of vehicles, trailers or boats; private schools with organized classes; renting of trailers and/or equipment; radio and television repair; restaurant; upholstery; shoe repair; cleaning and dyeing; preserving and home cooking for off-site sale; other uses that may generate excessive pedestrian or automobile traffic and that may be obnoxious to adjacent residents by virtue of noise, odor, or appearance as determined by the Director
    § 20.515.050 · code text
    Prohibited home occupations include the following:
  • Stable
    Applies: Except in E-1 zone
    § 20.515.050 · code text
    Stable (Except in E-1 zone);
  • Kennel
    Applies: Except in Kermore Lane opportunity area
    § 20.515.050 · code text
    Kennel (Except in Kermore Lane opportunity area);

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Stanton requires a Home Occupation Permit, or a use permit if clients visit, and bans uses such as auto repair and barber shops.

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