Apple Valley, CA Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

Section 9.19.050(A)(2) of the Home Occupation Permits chapter bars displays, sale, or advertising signs on the premises, with a single carve-out for signs associated with the sale of produce, fruit or vegetables, grown on the subject property. Section 9.19.050(A)(3) then sets the one exception that survives that ban: one unlighted identification sign containing the name and address of the owner, attached to the building, not exceeding two square feet in area per street frontage. The sign must be unlighted, mounted to the building rather than freestanding or in the yard, and capped at two square feet for each street the lot fronts.

This rule applies in every residential district in town, R-VLD through M-U, alongside the broader Section 9.19.050(A)(1) requirement that there be no visible or external evidence of the home occupation and that no dwelling be altered, furnished or decorated in a way that lets the structure be recognized as a place of business. Read together, the two subsections mean a home occupation cannot advertise itself with banners, sandwich boards, window displays or vehicle-mounted signage of any kind; the two-square-foot nameplate is the entire allowance. Section 9.19.030 gives the Planning Division authority to condition or deny a Home Occupation Permit application that proposes noncompliant signage, and Section 9.19.080 lets the Town Manager or a designee revoke an existing permit if the sign standard is violated after issuance.