More than 200 Laramie County residents converged on a meeting of the county’s governing board Tuesday to criticize proposed land use rule changes impacting home-based businesses.

The Laramie County Board of Commissioners adopted the controversial new land use regulations, but not until after a unanimous vote to remove a proposed permitting requirement for home-based businesses that had owners of home businesses in a rage.

The vote also followed nearly four hours of public testimony.

Detractors cast the land use rule change as government overreach – chiefly due to the permitting requirement that later failed.

“We don’t want the government telling us what we can and cannot do on our property,” said Laramie County resident Patricia McCoy

McCoy listed the many different taxes homeowners a

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