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Running a business from home in Hesperia

Hesperia home businesses may use 15% of the home, including the garage, or 1 room, whichever is less, with no customers or outside employees.

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Key points

  • Home businesses: Hesperia home businesses may use 15% of the home, including the garage, or 1 room, whichever is less, with no customers or outside employees.

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

What Hesperia's code says

Hesperia code What Hesperia's code adds
Space used
  • No more than 15% of the garage area.
    Applies: Garage use for the business, only if it does not block required parking.
    § 5.44.030 · code text
    The garage may be used as long as no more than fifteen (15) percent of the total area of the garage is utilized for the business if such use does not obstruct required parking.
  • No more than 15% of the home's total square footage, including the garage, or 1 room, whichever is less.
    § 5.44.030 · code text
    No more than fifteen (15) percent of the total square footage of the dwelling inclusive of the garage, or one room of the dwelling, whichever is less, shall be used for the home occupation.
Customer visits
  • No customers or clients may visit the home.
    Applies: Small uses such as music lessons, fruit and vegetable sales, and cottage food sales may be allowed if the city approves their intensity.
    § 5.44.030 · code text
    The use shall not allow customers or clientele to visit dwellings. However, incidental uses such as music lessons, the sale of fruits and vegetables, and the sale of food produced by a cottage food establishment, may be permitted if the intensity of such use is approved by the city.
Employees
  • Only family members who live on the property may work in the business.
    Applies: An employee of a cottage food business is the exception.
    § 5.44.030 · code text
    No persons, other than members of the family who reside on the premises, shall be engaged in such activity on the site, with the exception of an employee at a cottage food establishment.
Permit
  • A business license is required.
    § 5.44.020 · code text
    Any person desiring to obtain a license to operate a business as a home occupation shall submit a written application pursuant to Section 5.04.040 to the city.

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Hesperia home businesses may use 15% of the home, including the garage, or 1 room, whichever is less, with no customers or outside employees.

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