Greensboro, NC Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

5(F) sets a single, specific signage allowance for home occupations: one attached sign, mounted flat to the front wall of the building, capped at 4 square feet in area and 6 feet in height above ground level, with only external illumination permitted. That rules out freestanding yard signs, internally illuminated cabinet signs, window signs beyond the one allotment, and anything mounted away from the front wall. The limit mirrors the signage cap the LDO uses for tourist homes elsewhere in the same article, showing the city treats home-based commercial signage as a narrow carve-out from its residential no-signage baseline rather than a business-scale allowance.

5(C), which already bar any display of goods, products, or services visible off site and require the occupation to avoid changing the dwelling's outward appearance, so the sign is effectively the only visible evidence of the business the code permits from the street. These home occupation standards were last amended by Ord. 19-12 on 2/19/19.