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Homebased entrepreneurs fight to put zoning on the national agenda.
Then, just as you've got it up and running, an anonymous call to the authorities threatens everything you've built. That's exactly what happened to Colleen Wolf, who started communications and marketing company Wolf Prints Inc. in Yorklyn, Delaware, in 1992. It had a separate entrance and was attached to the house. Then, once it was finished, I put a sign in my front yard advertising the business. Within two weeks, Wolf says she got a call from the local zoning office saying a complaint had been filed against her and that a representative was coming out to investigate whether it was legal to operate the business from her home.