Brooklyn Park, MN Outdoor Lighting: Billboard Lighting (2026)

03, the chapter's definitions section, which defines an ILLUMINATED SIGN as any sign designed to be lit by an artificial light source, whether directed onto it or lit from inside, and then imposes the operative standard: all illuminated signs must have their light sources shielded to confine direct illumination to the face area of the sign. Billboards are only permitted at all in the BP Business Park and I General Industrial Districts, and only in the I District by conditional use permit, where the billboard must be the principal use on the lot and the lot must meet the I District's minimum lot requirements.

29(F) layers on siting limits that shape where an illuminated billboard can even go: it cannot stand within 300 feet of any Residential District, cannot sit within a 1,320-foot radius of another billboard, is capped at one square foot of sign area per lineal foot of street frontage or 300 square feet per side, must be set back at least 50 feet from front and rear property lines and 25 feet from side lines, and cannot exceed 25 feet in height above grade. 99: a misdemeanor with up to 90 days and a $1,000 fine, with each day a separate offense.