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North St. Paul council approves overhaul of home-occupation rules
Summary
The North St. Paul City Council adopted a zoning text amendment that reorganizes home-occupation rules into three levels, clarifies prohibited uses, and sets performance standards including hours and a 25% floor-area limit.
The North St. Paul City Council on a voice vote approved an ordinance to repeal and replace three sections of the city code governing home occupations, creating three tiers of permission and more explicit limits on what residents can run from their homes.
Community Development Director Ken Rollins told the council the rewrite adds a new Level 1 for low-impact professional work — “If you drove by that house, you would never know someone is working there” — reclassifies previous Level 1 uses as Level 2 (staff-review for modest impacts), and…
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