Aiken County, SC Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

Sec. 16 sets eleven conditions a home occupation must meet wherever Table 1 conditionally permits one. Clause (7) is the traffic standard: the business cannot generate traffic above what is normally expected in a residential neighborhood, a test the planning and development director applies against ordinary household activity on comparable residential lots. The same section pairs that limit with clause (8), which bars requiring any off-street parking beyond what the residential use itself needs, so a home business cannot rely on extra vehicles parked on the street or in a yard.

Clause (1) requires the occupation to run wholly inside the principal building, clause (6) caps outside employees at one, and clause (10) bars noise, glare, heat, vibration, smoke, dust, or odor perceptible to neighboring properties. Together these conditions mean a home occupation generating a steady stream of client visits, deliveries, or overflow parking that stands out from a purely residential property no longer fits the conditional use the county approved.