Wyoming, MI Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

Wyoming Zoning Ordinance § 90-208 sets the baseline: a home occupation may display one non-illuminated nameplate, not more than two square feet in area, attached to the building, and the sign shall contain only the name and occupation of the residents of the premises. No business logo board, sandwich board, banner or additional sign is allowed under that definition. The city's dedicated sign article, § 90-707, which governs specific sign requirements in residential districts, restates and reinforces the same limits from the other direction: subsection (5) provides that signs for home occupations may not be illuminated, and Table 90-707 lists 'allowed home occupations' as permitted exactly one wall sign, with a maximum area of two square feet, subject to the general five-foot property-line setback that applies to every sign in a residential district under § 90-707(1).

Because the nameplate must be attached to the building itself rather than freestanding, a home business cannot use a yard sign, pole sign or window display sign to advertise; anything larger, illuminated, or not affixed to the dwelling exceeds what the home occupation and residential sign rules allow, and would also strip the underlying use of its home occupation status under § 90-208's requirement that a home occupation avoid signs not permitted in the residential areas.