Benton County, AR Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

A sets the sign a home-based business may display as one of the criteria a Home and Rural Family Occupation must meet to operate without Planning Board review. In a subdivision, the rule allows no more than one non-illuminated business sign, capped at two square feet in area. On a rural lot of one acre or more, the county allows a larger, still non-illuminated sign, up to nine square feet in area and six feet tall. The sign limit sits alongside the section's other by-right conditions: the business cannot display merchandise or store equipment visible from a public road or an adjacent residence, and any outdoor element must be adequately setback and screened from neighboring properties.

Because illumination is barred outright regardless of lot size or location, an internally lit or floodlit sign takes the home occupation outside the exempt category entirely, not just over the size cap. A home business that needs a larger, illuminated, or off-premises sign to advertise has to go through the site plan review process required of non-exempt uses rather than relying on Sec. A's allowed-by-right sign. The distinction tracks the rest of Chapter VII's rural-versus-subdivision approach: lots of two acres or more also qualify for the broader list of exempt commercial and farm-related activities in Sec. 6, while the one-acre threshold specifically governs the larger sign allowance.