Sun Prairie, WI Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

050(B) sits inside the chapter listing signs that do not require a sign permit, and it addresses home occupations specifically: one home occupation name sign may be installed for an approved home occupation. That sign does not count toward the property's maximum permitted sign area or maximum number of signs under the section's general applicability rule, and no permit or filing fee applies to it. But the exemption is conditional, not automatic: the subsection states no such sign shall be allowed unless a home occupation permit is approved, and the sign itself is two square feet or less in area.

140(19) reaches the underlying home occupation regulations that govern whether the business itself is allowed at the property in the first place, covering things like employee limits, customer traffic and outdoor storage that a home business must satisfy before any sign question even arises. Because the sign is capped at two square feet, roughly the size of a large cutting board, it functions as an identification marker rather than an advertising sign, consistent with the section's broader address-and-name-plate provision in subsection A, which allows an identical two-square-foot sign for ordinary residential address identification.

Any sign larger than two square feet, or installed before the home occupation permit is approved, falls outside this exemption and would need to go through the standard sign permit process under a different chapter provision instead.