Glen Cove, NY Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

Section 280-54C lists the permitted accessory uses inside the R-1A Two-Acre Residence District, and the same two entries repeat, word for word, in the accessory-use lists for the R-1 One-Acre and R-5A Garden Apartment-Office Districts, so the limit functions as the citywide baseline for a home-occupation sign rather than a one-district quirk. Subsection C(3) allows a professional office or studio only for a doctor, dentist, teacher, artist, architect, engineer, musician or lawyer, and only if the property is that practitioner's principal or main residence. A contractor, retailer, consultant or online seller working from home gets no equivalent accessory-use permission, so there is nothing for that business to hang a sign under.

Subsection C(4) then caps the sign itself: the professional sign tops out at two square feet, while an announcement sign for a public, charitable, educational or religious institution can run to 16 square feet. The subsection cross-references Chapter 228, Signs, so the size cap tracks whatever that chapter currently sets; Chapter 228's own exemption list at § 228-18 separately confirms that directional signs, name or number plates and professional signs not over two square feet fall outside that chapter's general permitting and review process, meaning a compliant home-business sign does not need Sign Review Committee approval. 1, and a home occupation itself may employ no more than one person who does not live in the dwelling.