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

Section 11-32-7.M sets the customer-traffic ceiling for every home occupation permitted in Lakeville. Subsection M.2.b bars services that consist of more than one (1) pupil, client, or customer at a time, and the parallel instructional-class rule in M.1.b caps a class at not more than one (1) pupil at a time. Both provisions carve out the same narrow exception: up to three people may be present together if all three reside in the same household, meaning the exception covers family members being tutored or served together, not unrelated customers scheduled back to back.

Because the cap counts people on site at a time rather than per day, a hair salon, massage therapist or tutor licensed under chapter 32 can still see multiple clients across a business day, just never more than one non-household client in the home at once. The rule works together with section 11-32-7.L, which limits home-occupation parking to what an existing driveway or guest parking area can hold without blocking the street, sidewalk, trail or a private driveway, reinforcing that the chapter is built around low, spaced-out visitor traffic rather than a waiting room of customers.

A home occupation that regularly hosts more than one client at a time is outside the allowed home occupations list in M.1 and M.2 altogether, not simply over a numeric limit, so section 11-32-9 gives the City authority to inspect and confirm compliance with that cap.