Nassau County, FL Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

Home occupations sit among the 'supplementary regulations for certain conditional uses' in article 28 of the Land Development Code. 14(A) makes a home business a permissible conditional use in any residential district that does not already list it as an outright permitted use, and conditions the grant on eight numbered standards. The traffic rule sits at (A)(4): no traffic may be generated in greater volumes than would normally be expected in a residential neighborhood. That standard works alongside the rest of subsection (A): only family members residing on the premises may work in the business under (A)(1); the use must stay clearly incidental and subordinate to the residential use and never change the neighborhood's residential character under (A)(2); and no equipment or process can create noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors or electrical interference detectable off the lot under (A)(5).

Because a home occupation is a conditional use rather than a permitted one, the Planning and Economic Opportunity Department reviews and grants it case by case, and conditions can be tailored to the specific business through the conditional use process. A home business whose client or delivery traffic starts to look like a commercial operation, rather than the trips a house on that street would ordinarily generate, is out of compliance with (A)(4) even if every other condition in the section is met.