Shreveport, LA Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

3 of the Unified Development Code draws a hard line for home occupations: signs, displays, or activities that indicate from the exterior that the structure is being used, in part, for any purpose other than that of a residence are prohibited outright. There is no square-footage allowance, no single-sign exception, and no distinction between a professional nameplate and a full advertising sign; the rule bans the category entirely rather than capping its size. 4 requiring the entire home occupation, including storage, to stay completely inside the principal building or a permitted accessory structure.

Read together, the code's design is that a neighbor driving past a licensed home-based business should see nothing different from any other house on the block: no sign, no exterior display of goods, and no visible alteration marking it as a place of business. This is markedly stricter than the sign allowances given to actual commercial properties elsewhere in the UDC's use-standards articles, reflecting that home occupations are treated as an accessory use tolerated inside a residential district rather than a commercial use in its own right.