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Running a business from home in Hughson

Hughson home businesses may use 20% of living area or 400 sq ft, whichever is less, with at most 2 people, 1 a resident.

Key points

  • Home businesses: Hughson home businesses may use 20% of living area or 400 sq ft, whichever is less, with at most 2 people, 1 a resident.

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

What Hughson's code says

Hughson code What Hughson's code adds
Space used
  • No more than 20% of the main living area or 400 square feet, whichever is less.
    Applies: The area mainly used for the home business.
    § 17.03.044 · code text
    The area primarily dedicated to a home occupation shall not exceed 20 percent of the primary living area or 400 square feet, whichever is less.
Employees
  • No more than 2 people in total, and at least 1 must live in the home.
    § 17.03.044 · code text
    The home occupation shall employ at least one resident of the dwelling unit and shall not employ more than a total of two persons.
Permit
  • A zoning clearance is required.
    Applies: Low-impact home businesses.
    § 17.03.044 · code text
    A low-impact home occupation, as defined in this title, that is clearly incidental to the use of the structure or dwelling and meets the performance requirements of this subsection shall be permitted without an administrative permit but shall be required to obtain a zoning clearance subject to the requirements of HMC § 17.04.052.
  • An administrative permit is required.
    Applies: Moderate-impact home businesses.
    § 17.03.044 · code text
    Any home occupation that does not qualify as a low-impact home occupation, but that otherwise meets the requirements of this section, shall be considered a moderate-impact home occupation and shall be required to obtain an administrative permit.
  • No permit is needed. They are allowed by right.
    Applies: Small home day care in all residential zones, and in single-family and multifamily homes in commercial zones.
    § 17.03.044 · code text
    Small home day care facilities shall be permitted as of right in all residential zones and in single-family and multiple-family dwellings that are found in commercial zoning districts.
  • An administrative permit is required.
    Applies: Large home day care in residential zones, and in single-family and multifamily homes in commercial zones.
    § 17.03.044 · code text
    Large home day care facilities in residential zones and in single-family and multiple-family dwellings that are found in commercial zoning districts shall be subject to an administrative permit.
Businesses not allowed
  • Uses which entail the repair, manufacture, processing or alteration of goods, materials or objects intended for sale, where equipment or process creates an adverse impact on the neighborhood
    § 17.03.044 · code text
    Those which entail the repair, manufacture, processing or alteration of goods, materials or objects, intended for sale where equipment or process is used which creates an adverse impact on the neighborhood.
  • Harboring, training or raising of dogs, cats, birds or other animals
    § 17.03.044 · code text
    Those which entail the harboring, training or raising of dogs, cats, birds or other animals.
  • Vehicle painting, repair, and/or body and fender work
    § 17.03.044 · code text
    Those which entail vehicle painting, repair and/or body and fender work.
  • Barbershops, beauty parlors, nail salons, music schools, dancing schools, business schools, or schools of any kind with organized classes
    § 17.03.044 · code text
    Barbershops, beauty parlors, nail salons, music schools, dancing schools, business schools or schools of any kind with organized classes.
  • Retail sales, rental or display of goods or products at the home that cause an adverse impact on residential uses within 300 feet by increasing traffic and unreasonably interfering with parking and/or street and sidewalk use
    Applies: where the sales, rentals or display create the specified adverse impact
    § 17.03.044 · code text
    Those uses which involve retail sales, rental or display of goods or products at the home if such sales, rentals or display will create an adverse impact upon residential uses within 300 feet of the proposed home occupation by causing an increase in traffic, whether vehicular or pedestrian, which unreasonably interferes with parking and/or use of the streets and sidewalks by residents within 300 feet of the proposed home occupation.
  • Gun sales
    Applies: residential zones, except existing permitted uses as of the date of adoption of the ordinance codified in this title
    § 17.03.044 · code text
    Gun sales are prohibited in residential zones except for existing permitted uses as of the date of adoption of the ordinance codified in this title.

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