Bartow County, GA Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

2(G) addresses vehicle traffic tied to a home business directly: no on-street parking of business-use or commercial vehicles is permitted at any time, and the number of business-use or commercial vehicles on the property is limited to two. The ordinance defines a business-use or commercial vehicle as something like a heavy truck for hauling materials or a tractor-trailer, while an ordinary passenger truck, car or SUV used for the business does not count toward the two-vehicle cap. 2(I)(7) separately bars the kind of customer traffic that would turn a home into a retail storefront, listing among prohibited home occupations any retail sales of goods or services in which purchases or an exchange of goods between buyer and seller occur on a daily basis at the residence.

That provision is paired with subsection H(7), which does permit in-home retail operations for sales, typically online, in which sales activity on a daily basis does not occur at the residence, meaning mail-order and e-commerce sellers can operate as long as customers are not physically completing purchases at the house every day. Read together, the two subsections let a home business exist without banning it outright, but they cut off the two features that generate steady customer or delivery traffic: parked commercial vehicles on the street and daily walk-up retail transactions.

Any home occupation must also avoid becoming a nuisance detectable at the lot line under subsection E, which covers the noise and disturbance that heavy customer traffic can create.