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Running a business from home in Garden Grove

Garden Grove home businesses need a home occupation permit, may have no customers on site, and may employ only people living on the lot.

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Key points

  • Home businesses: Garden Grove home businesses need a home occupation permit, may have no customers on site, and may employ only people living on the lot.

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

What Garden Grove's code says

Garden Grove code What Garden Grove's code adds
Customer visits
  • No customers on site at any time.
    § 5.07.190 · code text
    no customers on site at any time
Employees
  • Only people who live on the lot may be regularly employed in the business.
    § 9.18.030.210 · code text
    No one other than persons residing on the lot where the home occupation is located may be regularly employed in such occupation.
  • Immediate family or caregivers of the disabled person who live on the premises may take part.
    Applies: When a disabled person applies for a home occupation.
    § 9.18.030.210 · code text
    Exceptions shall be made for a disabled person applying for a home occupation, whereby immediate members of the disabled person's family living on the premises or other persons responsible for the care of the disabled person and living on the premises shall be permitted to participate in the home occupation.
Permit
  • A home occupation permit is required.
    Applies: The request goes to the hearing body after fire department and planning staff review. The permit cannot be transferred.
    § 9.18.030.210 · code text
    The home occupation permit is not transferable.
Businesses not allowed
  • providing or rendering any service or selling any products involving in-person interaction with customers in the home; dispatching employees or independent contractors at or from the residential premises
    § 9.18.030.210 · code text
    The provision or rendering of any service or sale of any products that involves in-person interaction with customers in the home is prohibited.

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Garden Grove home businesses need a home occupation permit, may have no customers on site, and may employ only people living on the lot.

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