US Sign Code

Is your storefront sign legal?

In most US cities your legal sign size is buried in the zoning code and changes block to block. Pick your city, enter your address, and get a clear green/amber/red read before you pay for a sign the city makes you take down.

Choose your city

New York City Live
NYC Zoning Resolution · automatic zoning lookup by address
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Chicago Live
Chicago Zoning Ordinance 17-12 · automatic zoning lookup
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Los Angeles Live
LAMC 14.4 wall-sign formula · automatic zoning lookup
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Dallas
Dallas sign code
Coming soon
Atlanta
Atlanta sign ordinance
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Philadelphia · Seattle · Miami · DC · San Francisco
More cities rolling out
Coming soon

How it works

01
Enter your address
We look up the zoning district for your exact parcel from public city data.
02
Describe your sign
Size, illumination, frontage. We match it against your district's real ordinance limits.
03
Get a risk read
Green, amber, or red — with the exact code section behind it, and a path to a licensed pro.

Why this exists

Every US city writes its own sign ordinance, tucked inside hundreds of pages of zoning code, and the limits change with your district — and sometimes whether your sign is lit. Owners routinely size a sign off the wrong number and get a rejected permit, a daily-accruing fine, or a removal order after the sign is already up. Big software skipped this because parsing thousands of city codes by hand never paid off. We read each city's actual ordinance so you can check your sign in seconds, for free, before you commit.