Lowell, MA Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

Section 4.3.3(5) bars any exterior indication of an as-of-right home occupation, 'including signs,' and Section 4.3.3(6) bars customer/client trips. The City's Home Occupation page states plainly that 'No signs are allowed except those allowed by the State of Massachusetts (i.e., Justice of the Peace).' Only a Special-Permit home occupation under Sec. 4.3.4(3) may have 'a sign or name plate in compliance with Section 6.3.' Under Section 6.3.2(1), the permitted sign is an Address Sign displaying the street number or occupant name, which 'may include identification of an accessory professional office or customary home occupation'; it may be wall-mounted or on a post no more than four feet high set at least three feet from the street line, must not exceed two (2) square feet in area, and must be stationary with no motorized moving parts. Section 4.3.7(1) further forbids, in a Residential District, any accessory use involving show windows, displays, or illumination except signs the ordinance permits.