Every town has a list of special permit criteria that the Commission will evaluate to determine whether the use should be allowed, but generally these criteria include thing such as impact on traffic, whether the use is in harmony with the other uses in the neighborhood, septic and environmental impact, noise, and related criteria.

Traffic to the city really kills the practicality of going there during rush hour 

Stunning nature with the Pacific ocean and gigantic Santa Monica Mountain Range out the door with year round near perfect weather.Close to everything from Malibu to Calabassas, Ojai, Santa Barbara etc and within the same 45 min to 1 hour distance ( traffic depending) to 3 commercial airports, namely LAX, BUR, SBA.The university, USCCI is the only one of its kind growing in leaps and bounds while general enrollment numbers are in decline everywhere else along the CA coast.

Its all BS.Treat your traffic like you would treat your fellow Yooman you'd meet at walmart.An introduction.

Here in Oregon the beginning of the year (Jan/Feb/March) foot traffic typically slows down considerably.

IF however you want to generate leads or traffic to the website, SEO(search engine optimization) becomes quite important. 

Within 15 min from grocery stores/gas stations and not near a lot of traffic which is really all we want lol.

The results were OK but not fantastic.A few weeks later we decided to post videos of our rehabbed units to FB and the traffic we started receiving from FB went through the roof.   

For other member curious, I've been hosting in Punta Cana through various platforms and its a heavy traffic areas, but short term renting here only works if you have a great team in place. 

Tons of businesses run virtually now and use home addresses, they are trying to prevent storefront traffic etc in residential areas.