Florence County, SC Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

Section 30-98 sets no numeric cap on client visits or vehicle trips for a home occupation; instead it uses a qualitative standard, barring traffic generated in an amount above that normally expected in a residential neighborhood. That leaves the zoning administrator to judge, case by case, whether a home business is drawing an unusual volume of visitors compared with an ordinary house on the same street. The companion parking rule works the same way: no parking is needed above that required by the principal residential use, meaning a home occupation cannot be forced to add parking spaces beyond what the dwelling itself already needs, but it also cannot generate enough visitor traffic to require extra parking without breaching the traffic standard.

These two provisions work together with the section's broader limits on staffing, since Section 30-98(6) bars employing anyone who does not reside in the home, which caps the number of people coming and going for work purposes and, by extension, limits how much traffic a home occupation can realistically generate before it starts to look like a business the neighborhood was not zoned for. A home occupation exceeding these bounds is subject to the same conditional-use review and revocation authority the zoning administrator holds over the underlying permit.