Coon Rapids, MN Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

Section 11-1210(1)(f) states that nothing may be discernible to surrounding properties indicating a home occupation is being conducted except for a sign as permitted by Section 11-1203, a garden, or one work vehicle. That permitted sign is defined in Table 11-1203.7(2), which governs ground signs by zoning district and use: for 'Other Residential Uses, including Home Occupations' in the Low-Density Residential 1, Low-Density Residential 2, Moderate-Density Residential, High-Density Residential, and Mobile Home districts, the table allows one sign per lot that cannot be illuminated, caps the sign at six square feet, limits its height to three feet, and cross-references the setback table at § 11-1203.8 for placement.

That setback table separately requires on-premises signs to sit back at least ten feet from any property line or right-of-way line for monument-style signs, and keeps any sign within a corner's sight triangle to a maximum height of two and one-half feet or a minimum clearance of ten feet. Because the home occupation sign allowance sits in the same table row as other residential ground signs rather than getting its own commercial-scale allotment, it is far smaller than the signage available to a business in a commercial district, reflecting the code's intent that a home occupation stay visually indistinguishable from a residence apart from that one small sign.