{"id":202294,"date":"2026-03-03T15:09:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202294\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:09:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:09:43","slug":"sign-permits-city-of-oakland-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202294\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign Permits | City of Oakland, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All signs require Zoning approval.\u00a0Business signage installation typically also requires a Building Permit. However, Building Permits may not be needed\u00a0for painted signs or sign refacings.<\/p>\n<p>Please review the signage chapter of the Planning Code (<a href=\"https:\/\/library.municode.com\/ca\/oakland\/codes\/planning_code?nodeId=TIT17PL_CH17.104GELISI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"OMC 17.104 (open in new tab)\">OMC 17.104<\/a>) to determine what is permitted in your zone.\u00a0Please be sure to review the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaklandca.gov\/files\/assets\/city\/v\/1\/planning-amp-building\/documents\/pc\/fees-and-reqs\/small-project-design-review-guidelines.pdf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Commercial Design Review Guidelines (open in new tab)\" title=\"Small-Project-Design-Review-Guidelines.pdf\" class=\"document ext-pdf\">Commercial Design Review Guidelines(PDF,\u00a04MB)<\/a>\u00a0for commercial signage.<\/p>\n<p>To determine your zone and to measure your parcel frontage to determine maximum signage per property, view the City&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaklandca.gov\/Planning-Building\/Planning-Zoning\/Zoning\/View-the-City-Zoning-Map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"online Zoning Map (open in new tab)\">online Zoning Map<\/a>. 20 sq ft per tenant is automatically allowed as a minimum; includes all commercial tenants.<\/p>\n<p>EXEMPTIONS FROM DESIGN REVIEW<\/p>\n<p>Signs that fall under any of the following criteria are exempt from Design Review:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nChanges to sign faces&#13;<br \/>\nTemporary signs such as Realty Signs, Development Signs, holiday decorations, and displays behind a display window. Changing the text or pictures on an existing sign&#13;<br \/>\nFollowing a Master Signage Program: Putting up a new sign that follows a pre-approved plan (Master Signage Program) for all the signs on a property&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All signs require Zoning approval.\u00a0Business signage installation typically also requires a Building Permit. However, Building Permits may not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-202294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}