Parma, OH Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

03(f) sets the conditions under which a gainful home occupation, such as dressmaking, interior decorating or arts and crafts, may operate as an accessory use inside a residential dwelling in Parma's Single-Family House District. ' The section draws a hard line between an identifying nameplate, which is allowed, and any sign that functions as advertising, such as a lit business sign, a sandwich board, a banner or a yard sign naming services and prices, none of which are permitted regardless of size. The same subsection ties into the broader home-occupation conditions: the business must stay wholly inside the dwelling, cannot occupy more than twenty-five percent of the dwelling's floor area, cannot employ anyone outside the household, and cannot change the residential character of the exterior.

A sign that functions as advertising would itself change the exterior's residential appearance, reinforcing why the ordinance singles out signage as a separate, explicit condition rather than leaving it to the general exterior-character clause in (f)(7). Because Chapter 1155 extends the Single-Family House District's conditional-use provisions to Two-Family House Districts, the same nameplate-only signage limit applies to home occupations operated out of duplexes as well as single-family homes across most of the city's residential zoning.