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Running a business from home in Redding

A home business may use at most 25% of the home's floor area; only residents may work there, except 1 helper for cottage food.

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Key points

  • Home businesses: A home business may use at most 25% of the home's floor area; only residents may work there, except 1 helper for cottage food.

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

What Redding's code says

Redding code What Redding's code adds
Space used
  • The business may use no more than 25% of the home's gross floor area.
    Applies: Only inside an enclosed living area of the home or the garage.
    § 18.43.110 · code text
    A home occupation shall be conducted only within an enclosed living area of the dwelling unit or the garage and shall not occupy more than twenty-five percent of the gross floor area of the dwelling.
Customer visits
  • Customers or clients are not allowed at the home.
    Applies: Except for educational, therapeutic or counseling services, and cottage food operations.
    § 18.43.110 · code text
    Customers or clients shall not be permitted at the residence except to receive educational, therapeutic, or counseling services where not more than two clients shall receive service at any one time, or for a cottage food operation.
  • No more than 2 clients at any one time.
    Applies: Educational, therapeutic or counseling services.
    § 18.43.110 · code text
    Customers or clients shall not be permitted at the residence except to receive educational, therapeutic, or counseling services where not more than two clients shall receive service at any one time, or for a cottage food operation.
Employees
  • No employees except people who live on the property.
    Applies: All home businesses except cottage food operations.
    § 18.43.110 · code text
    Except for a cottage food operation, only the actual residents of the dwelling unit shall engage in the home occupation; no employees shall be permitted on the premises in connection with the home occupation except those who are residents of the property.
  • 1 employee who is not a household member is allowed.
    Applies: Cottage food operations.
    § 18.43.110 · code text
    Pursuant to Section 113758 of the Health and Safety Code, a cottage food operation may employ one nonhousehold member as an employee.
Permit
  • The appropriate business license is required.
    § 18.43.110 · code text
    Home occupations are permitted within all residential zoning districts subject to obtaining the appropriate business license; they also shall meet the following standards:
  • A new business license is required.
    Applies: When the home business changes.
    § 18.43.110 · code text
    In the event a home occupation changes, a new business license shall be obtained.
Businesses not allowed
  • display of goods
    § 18.43.110 · code text
    The display of goods or storage of uncustomary amounts of flammable materials shall be prohibited.
  • on-site training for promotional sales
    § 18.43.110 · code text
    On-site training for promotional sales shall not be permitted.
  • commercial cultivation, distribution, manufacturing, processing, testing, or storage of cannabis or cannabis-containing products
    Applies: commercial purposes
    § 18.43.110 · code text
    The cultivation, distribution, manufacturing, processing, testing and storage of cannabis and products containing cannabis for commercial purposes shall not be permitted.

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A home business may use at most 25% of the home's floor area; only residents may work there, except 1 helper for cottage food.

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