Jonesboro, AR Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

Sec. 117-226(2)(a) requires a home occupation to remain clearly secondary to the residential use of the property and to leave the dwelling's residential character and appearance unchanged in any visible way, but it carves out one specific exception: a nameplate sign is expressly permitted. No other subsection of the home occupation standards authorizes any additional signage, and the broader rule against external alteration of the dwelling in Sec. 117-226(2)(i) reinforces that a home business can't add awnings, painted signage, or other exterior branding beyond that single nameplate.

The same subsection bars external display of goods or services and any unsightly conditions or waste visible from off the property, so a nameplate sign can't be paired with product displays, banners, or sandwich boards in the yard. Because the home occupation must also be carried on wholly within the principal residential structure under Sec. 117-226(2)(g), any sign has to identify a business based inside the home itself, not in a garage or accessory building, since those spaces can't host a home occupation at all.

Read together, these standards mean Jonesboro treats a nameplate sign as the single visible concession to running a business from a house; everything else about the operation, from the work performed to storage, is meant to stay invisible from the street.