Catoosa County, GA Sign Regulations: Window Signs (2026)

Table 5-1 of the Unified Development Code, under Section 5.05.09, sets the standard directly for window signs in commercial and industrial zoning districts: total signage may not exceed 30 percent of the aggregate area of windows and glass doors facing road frontage. Section 5.05.02(B)(2)(a) repeats the same 30 percent threshold as one of the sign types exempt from needing a sign permit at all, so a business that keeps its window signage within the cap can post it without filing an application with the Planning and Zoning Office.

Cross the line, though, and the sign becomes a prohibited sign outright: Section 5.05.06(R) lists window signs which exceed 30 percent of the aggregate window and door glass area among the county's flatly banned sign types, alongside roof signs, portable signs, and pole signs. The 30 percent figure is measured against the combined area of all windows and glass doors on the frontage facing the road, not just the specific pane the sign is mounted on, so a storefront with several windows has to keep its total posted signage, added together, under three-tenths of that combined glass area.

The rule applies only in commercial and industrial districts; window signs are not addressed as a separate permitted category in agricultural or residential zoning, where freestanding and other sign types carry their own, much smaller size caps under the same table.