Stafford Township, NJ Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

Condition (h) of § 211-35U(1) limits retail activity: a home occupation does not involve the retail sale of goods and/or services offered or produced by the home occupation from the property other than by appointment. Walk-in retail is out, and scheduled client or customer visits are the model the code allows. The condition was added 11-1-1994 by Ord. No. 94-96 and amended 6-24-1997 by Ord. No. 97-44.

Condition (i) sets the number. A home occupation does not involve truck deliveries, except parcel delivery services, e.g., UPS, and no more than an average of 10 vehicle visits per week, including parcel delivery services. The code measures an average per week, not a daily count, and it excludes resident family and permitted employees from the calculation, so only outside traffic counts toward the average.

Condition (j) adds a nuisance standard: the use does not constitute a nuisance to adjacent residential properties for reasons of noise, odor, congestion, traffic, vibration, electrical interference and other causes. Congestion and traffic are named causes in the text. Staffing is limited by condition (c) to members of the immediate family residing in the home plus no more than one employee or family member not residing in the principal dwelling.

The same limits are printed as items (8), (9) and (10) of the HOME OCCUPATION definition in § 130-2B of the Land Use and Development chapter. A home occupation anywhere in Stafford Township, including Manahawkin, also needs an annual zoning permit from the Zoning Officer under § 211-35U(2), valid for one year (twelve months).