Toms River, NJ Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- Street frontage
- Collector or arterial road only
- Employee cap
- 2 non-resident employees max
- Space cap
- 50% of first floor area
- Noise
- No sound audible outside building
Summary
Toms River Township only allows a home occupation on a lot that fronts a collector or arterial street, with driveway access and sign placement there too: a direct limit on funneling customer and business traffic through local residential blocks.
Home occupations are permitted as a conditional use in those zones specified, subject to the following standards... No sounds shall be audible outside the building. The property must front on and have driveway access to and sign location on a street classified as a minor collector, major collector, minor arterial or principal arterial roadway.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4954830; v33 updated 2026-04-22; through 04-22-2026).
Full Breakdown
Under § 348-9.12, a home occupation is a conditional use, and Subsection E requires the property to front on, and have its driveway access and any sign on, a street classified as a minor collector, major collector, minor arterial or principal arterial roadway, not a purely local residential street. The section also caps the operation at two non-resident employees, limits the business to 50% of the first-floor area, requires the work be conducted entirely inside the dwelling or an accessory building, and bars any sound audible outside the building.
Violations & Fines
Running a home occupation without the required arterial or collector frontage, or otherwise outside these standards, is a Chapter 348 zoning violation: a minimum $100 fine for a first offense and $200 for each later one, per day the violation continues.
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