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

Effingham County's general sign article (Zoning Ordinance Article XIII) defines a window sign as one affixed to a window and meant to be read from the public way or an adjoining property, but the operative coverage limit for window signage sits in the Corridor Overlay District's Signage Design Standards (Appendix F, § XII), adopted by Ordinance No. 2025-068 on February 18, 2025. That overlay covers unincorporated parcels within 500 feet of the Chamber of Commerce Gateway (Highway 21) and Hodgeville Road. Section XII.3 limits permanent and temporary window and door signs to no more than ten percent of a business's aggregate window area, whether the signage sits in a single pane or is spread across several panels of the same storefront.

The ten-percent cap does not apply to information a government body requires the business to post, such as the proprietor's name, business name, street address, phone number or hours of operation. The same subsection bars any sign from being mounted on a door at all, caps window sign lettering at three inches in height, and separately requires street-visible address numerals between four and six inches tall. Because the overlay sits alongside, not inside, the county's general sign article, a storefront on Highway 21 or Hodgeville Road answers to this ten-percent window rule in addition to the permit, height and area limits (monument signs capped at 64 square feet per face, wall signs at up to 300 square feet) that Section XII sets for the rest of the corridor's signage.