Sacramento, CA Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

Section 17.228.230.A.7 is unqualified: 'There shall be no sign, nameplate, or any other form of advertising displayed at the permitted residence.' Unlike the commercial sign standards elsewhere in Title 17 that set allowable square footage, height, and illumination, this home-occupation rule doesn't carve out a small identification sign or a temporary banner, it's a flat ban that applies the moment a residence is operating under any home occupation permit, administrative or CUP, under §§ 17.228.210 and 17.228.220. The requirement sits inside § 17.228.230's list of conditions that apply to 'all home occupations ... without regard to the number of home occupation permits issued for the residence,' so a property running more than one home-based business still gets zero exterior advertising, not one sign per business.

The zoning administrator can waive several of the § 17.228.230 general requirements when issuing a conditional use permit under § 17.228.220, per § 17.228.230.B, which means the no-sign rule is not necessarily absolute for a CUP-approved occupation, but for the administrative-permit occupations listed in § 17.228.210, which don't go through that discretionary CUP process, there is no waiver mechanism at all, so the ban is total. Businesses that want visible signage have to operate from a nonresidential, commercially zoned location instead, where Title 17's regular sign standards apply.