Blaine, MN Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

Blaine's home occupation standards directly limit customer and delivery traffic to keep commercial activity from spilling into residential streets. Sec. 129-10(c)(13) requires that a home occupation "normally involve fewer than four customers entering daily," and Sec. 129-10(c)(14) caps the size of delivery trucks serving the business at 25,000 GVW. These traffic limits sit alongside related standards in the same subsection: activity is restricted to 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. under Sec. 129-10(c)(1), off-street parking must be provided per Sec. 129-13 under Sec. 129-10(c)(8), merchandise cannot be displayed or offered for sale on-site under Sec.

129-10(c)(9), and any noise, odor, vibration, glare, fumes or fire hazard detectable beyond the property line is prohibited under Sec. 129-10(c)(11). A home occupation that can't operate within the four-customer, 7 a.m.-to-10 p.m., 25,000-GVW-delivery framework isn't automatically shut out, but it has to be one of the uses Sec. 129-10(e) allows conditionally, on farm residential or residential estate lots of three acres or more, and only after a conditional use permit is approved under Sec. 101-4; nothing outside that list gets an exception to the traffic caps.