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Running a business from home in South Gate

South Gate requires a permit for a home business and allows no customers or non-resident employees for a general home occupation.

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Key points

  • Home businesses: South Gate requires a permit for a home business and allows no customers or non-resident employees for a general home occupation.

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

What South Gate's code says

South Gate code What South Gate's code adds
Customer visits
  • No customers, clients or visitors may come to the home for the business.
    Applies: Home businesses in general.
    § 2.10.650 · code text
    No customers, clients or visitors shall come to the permitted dwelling unit in connection with the authorized home occupation;
  • Direct sales are allowed.
    Applies: Cottage food operations.
    § 2.10.650 · code text
    provided, however, that direct sales may occur from a cottage food operation.
Employees
  • No one other than a resident of the home can be employed there.
    Applies: Home businesses in general.
    § 2.10.650 · code text
    No one other than a resident of the permitted dwelling unit shall be employed on the premises in the course of conducting a home occupation;
Permit
  • A permit for a home occupation or cottage food operation is required.
    Applies: In residential zones where the code allows this use.
    § 2.10.650 · code text
    An application for a permit to conduct a home occupation or cottage food operation in any residential zone in which such use is authorized by this code shall contain the information required by Section 2.10.140.

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South Gate requires a permit for a home business and allows no customers or non-resident employees for a general home occupation.

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