Shreveport, LA Sign Regulations: Window Signs (2026)

6, the article's 'no permit required' list, alongside real estate signs, yard signs, and construction signs. C limits window signs to non-residential uses in every zoning district, from neighborhood commercial to heavy industrial, and sets a single coverage ceiling: no more than 30 percent of the surface of each window area, whether the sign is a permanent painted logo or a temporary sale banner taped to the glass. The Code defines 'window area' generously for the business owner, treating a run of adjoining panes as one continuous surface for the 30 percent calculation rather than measuring pane by pane, and it specifically excludes mullions, the thin structural bars between panes, from counting as a dividing element.

Only a real architectural or structural element, such as a wall segment between two separate storefronts, resets the calculation to a new window area. Window signs may be lit from inside or outside the glass under the same subsection, so illumination alone does not push a window sign into a different, permitted-only sign category. 7 rather than the no-permit track, or to removal if it does not qualify under any listed sign type.