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

Eagan's home occupation standards in City Code Sec. 11.70, Subd. 23 address customer traffic through two specific limits. Subdivision 23.F prohibits over-the-counter sales entirely, meaning a home occupation cannot operate as a walk-in retail storefront where customers browse and buy goods on site; the business has to be a service or an operation that does not depend on in-person retail transactions at the home. Subdivision 23.H then caps the parking the home occupation can use at three off-street spaces for the occupant and any visitors combined, which functions as a practical ceiling on how many clients or customers can be on site at once, since a fourth vehicle would exceed the allowed off-street parking.

These limits sit alongside the rest of Subd. 23's requirements, including Subdivision 23.G, which requires the entrance to the home occupation to be from within the principal structure rather than a separate customer entrance, reinforcing that the use has to look and function like an ordinary home rather than a commercial storefront. Community Development enforces these standards through zoning compliance review, and a home business generating more visitor traffic or parking demand than three spaces, or one that is selling goods over the counter, is out of compliance with Subd. 23 regardless of how the rest of the home occupation operates.