Commerce City, CO Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

Signage for a Commerce City home occupation is governed by two cross-referenced provisions inside LDC § 21-5240. Subsection 2(e) states plainly that signs associated with home occupations shall be regulated in section 21-8300, the Sign Schedule, folding home-based businesses into the citywide sign article rather than giving them a bespoke allowance. Subsection 4(e) then adds an absolute restriction that sits outside the sign schedule entirely: no off-site sign shall be placed as to denote the location of the home occupation. That means a homeowner cannot post a directional sign on a neighbor's property, a nearby street corner, or any other off-site location to advertise where the business operates, no matter what the general sign schedule would otherwise allow for on-premises signage.

The two rules work together with the rest of § 21-5240's exterior-evidence standards: the business already cannot be visible from the public right-of-way or from neighboring properties under subsection 4(c), so in practice most home occupations in Commerce City end up with no exterior signage at all rather than a small identification sign, since any sign visible from the street would conflict with that visibility standard even before the off-site sign ban is considered. Article VIII of the Land Development Code, which contains the current sign-measurement standards, was substantially renumbered by Ordinance No.

2432 in December 2022, after § 21-5240 was adopted, so the cross-reference points to the sign article generally rather than a single surviving numbered subsection.