Onslow County, NC Sign Regulations: Window Signs (2026)

4 establishes the Master Sign Plan as an alternative to the standard permanent-signage rules in Article 12, letting a development substitute a coordinated, architecturally integrated sign package for the district-by-district freestanding and wall-sign standards elsewhere in the article. 4(C)(1)(c), sets window signs at up to five per tenant, with no maximum height (marked N/A, consistent with a sign mounted flat against glass) but a coverage cap of ten percent of the ground-floor window area. The same table caps awning signs at 15 square feet per tenant per street frontage, freestanding signs at 200 square feet base area (rising to 300 with additional tenants), and front-elevation wall signs at one square foot per linear foot of building wall, so the window-sign line sits inside a broader coordinated package rather than standing alone.

Because the plan is an architectural-theme alternative, freestanding sign structures must use materials and colors related to the principal building and sign copy is limited mainly to name, logo, and address; the Zoning Administrator reviews and approves the Master Sign Plan application, including its signage plan and site plan, before any of these substitute standards take effect. 1(E)(1)(d).