Catawba County, NC Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

UDO Sec. 44-615(3)e sets the sign allowance for home occupations operating out of a residential dwelling: one nonilluminated sign, with a surface area not to exceed four square feet, and a total height, including the supporting structure, that cannot exceed four feet. This sits inside the same subsection that caps the home occupation's footprint at 25 percent of the dwelling's usable floor area and bars outside storage or display of products, so the sign restriction is part of a broader package meant to keep the business visually indistinguishable from a residence except for that single small marker. The identical sign cap (four square feet, four feet tall, one sign, nonilluminated) is repeated verbatim for the county's separate "back yard business" category at Sec. 44-634.1(2)a, confirming this is the county's standard home-based-business sign allowance rather than a one-off figure specific to a single use.