Orangeburg County, SC: Auto Repair on Residential Property (2026)

3's Table 1 lists General Auto Repair, NAICS 811111, with a district-by-district use code, and every residential and near-residential column reads "N": not permitted in RS (Single-Family Residential), RG (General Residential), RO, or CN. The use is conditional, marked "C," in CG and FA, permitted by right, "P," in BI, and conditional in RC, and it comes with a required parking ratio of three spaces per service bay wherever it is allowed. 20 then sets the operating conditions that apply anywhere the use is sited: general auto and other motor vehicle repair has to be conducted entirely within fully enclosed buildings, with no open storage of junked vehicles, dismantled parts, scrap parts, or other salvage material, except that up to ten disabled vehicles carrying current license plates may be stored outdoors.

Servicing itself has to happen in areas that can be cleaned, so drainage and spill containment factor into how a shop lays out its bays. Because the use is barred outright in the districts where most houses in unincorporated Orangeburg County sit, a resident cannot legally run a general auto repair operation, even a small one, out of a home garage in an RS or RG zone; the ordinance channels that activity into the county's commercial and industrial districts instead.