Stedman, NC Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

31 of Stedman's Zoning Ordinance lists six limitations that apply to every home occupation permitted as an incidental use in a residential district. The final limitation addresses vehicle and customer traffic directly: traffic generation from the home occupation shall not exceed the traffic volumes generated by nearby residents. Unlike a numeric trip cap, this standard is comparative, measuring the home business against the ordinary residential traffic the surrounding street already carries, so the Zoning Inspector's enforcement question is whether the business measurably adds to what a typical house on that block would generate on its own.

31 restrictions covered elsewhere in the same section: no street-visible product display, restrictions on mechanical equipment and noise, a ban on accessory buildings or outside storage, a floor-area cap of twenty-five percent or five hundred square feet, and residents-only staffing. 3's heading rather than a use requiring its own commercial zoning classification. Because the ordinance places home occupations in residential districts including R15, R10 and R6 as a permitted incidental use rather than a conditional use needing Board of Adjustment review, the traffic ceiling functions as the ordinance's built-in check against a home business effectively operating as a retail or service storefront drawing customer traffic a residential street was not designed to carry.