When Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple Computer in 1976, they assembled their first batch of Apple I computers in the garage of Jobs’ family home in a Los Altos, Calif., neighborhood.

But if the next Jobs, Bill Gates, or Elon Musk tried to do the same in their parents’ New Hampshire home today, they would likely run afoul of the state’s restrictive zoning laws. The same could be true for a bakery, barber shop, or home-based child care business designed to serve a local neighborhood.

An effort is underway in Concord to change that with legislation that would give homeowners more freedom and limit restrictive zoning rules. Reps. Joe Alexander (R-Goffstown) and Joe Sweeney (R-Salem) are proposing regulations to free up small business owners and would-be entrepreneurs

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