Shasta County, CA Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

Shasta County deliberately keeps home occupations invisible from the street. Section 17.88.175(A) of the Zoning Code requires that 'there shall be no exterior evidence of the conduct of a home occupation,' expressly including 'advertising signs of any kind.' That is a flat prohibition: a residence operating a home occupation cannot post a business, advertising, or directional sign for the enterprise, whether on the building, the fence, or in the yard. The same approach applies to large family day care homes, where Section 17.88.215(D) states plainly that 'no signs are permitted.' What a resident may still display are the general signs the County allows in any zone without a use permit under the sign provisions of Chapter 17.84 (General Development Standards). For example, Section 17.84.062(B) permits residential identification signs, including names of occupants, limited to a total combined sign area of two square feet (excluding street numbers) and six feet in height, and it permits non-commercial personal-statement signs subject to size, setback, and one-per-street-frontage limits. None of those allowances may be used to advertise the home business. Because the no-sign rule is part of what keeps a home occupation a permitted accessory use, posting a business sign can jeopardize the home-occupation status itself, not just draw a sign violation.