Midland, TX Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

The sign ban is written twice into Midland's zoning code, once as a qualifying condition and once as an operating standard. 01 defines "Home-Based Business" as an occupation carried on in the home "without the use of a sign to advertise the occupation," among its other conditions (no structural alteration, no additional employees, no on-premises sales). That means a use that posts a sign doesn't meet the zoning definition of a home-based business at all; it has stepped outside the use entirely. 12(d), part of the numbered standards list every recognized home-based business must follow, restates the rule as a direct prohibition with no size, lighting or placement exception carved out anywhere in the standards list, unlike the nameplate and professional signage allowances the sign code gives some commercial and institutional uses elsewhere in Title XI.

A home business owner who wants any exterior identification, even a small nameplate, has no path to it under the home-based-business use; the only route around the ban is to relocate the business to a district and use classification that allows commercial signage under Chapter 11-7, Outdoor Sign Regulations, which governs sign types, sizes and permits for uses actually zoned for signage. For a home occupation, though, the rule is absolute: no advertising sign, of any kind, on the property.