Oklahoma City, OK Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

C. The operator must live in the main building and cannot employ anyone outside the immediate family. " The rest of the list backs that up: the home cannot be altered to attract business, no additional curb cuts or paved front-yard parking may be added beyond the driveway, no goods can be created, stored, exchanged or sold on-site like a shop, no material or equipment can be stored outside the home, and no mechanical equipment causing noise, dust, odor or electrical disturbance is allowed. Those conditions cover a tutoring service, a bookkeeper, a hairstylist working from home or any similar occupation run out of a residence: none of them may post a yard sign, window sign or address plaque advertising the business.

C(9), covering an artist studio (painter, sculptor, photographer, graphic artist, architect, landscape architect or fiber artist) run as a home occupation in the NC District. That exception allows one non-illuminated wood or metal plaque, no larger than one square foot, attached flush to the building wall, and limits the studio to two non-family employees. Outside that specific NC District artist-studio carve-out, the flat no-signage rule in C(3) controls every home business citywide. The Linwood Place Urban Conservation District (§ 59-16108) runs its own separate home-occupation signage allowance for that neighborhood only and does not apply elsewhere in the city.