Kent County, DE Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- Customer cap
- 6 customers/clients per day
- Visiting hours
- 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- Delivery hours
- 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- Required parking
- 2 spaces beyond residential requirement
- Home office alternative
- Zero customers permitted, § 205-68F
- Governing section
- § 205-68E(12)
Summary
Kent County caps home-occupation customer traffic at six visitors a day between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. under § 205-68E(12), and § 205-55 separately bars any home occupation from generating traffic in excess of what is normal for the residential neighborhood. A stricter 'home office' classification allows no customers on site at all.
Deliveries and pickups of supplies or products are permitted only between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Vehicles used for delivery and pickup are limited to those normally servicing residential neighborhoods. Customers may visit the site only during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. No more than six customers or clients may visit the site on any single day.
Full Breakdown
, and (12)(f) caps the count at no more than six customers or clients visiting the site on any single day. and requires two off-street parking spaces for the home occupation on top of what the dwelling itself needs. Kent County also offers a stricter, customer-free alternative: § 205-68F's HOME OFFICE classification, for online or paperwork-based businesses, states the office 'shall have no employees, and no customers or clients can visit the subject site' and allows no signage at all. window, must instead seek approval as a 'professional office' under § 205-68G, which allows employees and customers but caps the office at 45% of the dwelling's floor area.
Violations & Fines
Exceeding the six-customer, 8:00 a.m.-to-8:00 p.m. limit in § 205-68E(12), or letting a home office receive customers at all, is enforced as a Chapter 205 zoning violation under § 205-426: a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, up to 10 days' imprisonment, or both, with the $100 minimum mandatory and each day of continued excess traffic a separate offense.
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