Greenwood, IN Outdoor Lighting: Billboard Lighting (2026)

Sec. 10-03-08.M.4 of the Greenwood Unified Development Ordinance, covering Structure Specifications for off-premises billboard and high-rise signs, requires that all pole and structural members shall be of steel, that billboard type signs shall be mounted on single-pole or I-beam structures, and that all members shall be painted. Frames around poster or bulletin faces must be painted metal, rough sawn cedar, or a framing material of equivalent quality. Each structure must display the owner's name, address and telephone number, and the code adds the electrical safety rule at the center of this listing: on sign structures utilizing electricity for illumination and so forth, the sign structure shall feature Underwriter's Laboratory approval of said installation.

That UL listing sits alongside the section's broader construction rules: faces may be mounted back-to-back or V-ed at up to a 60-degree angle, an exposed single-direction sign's blind side must be finished to match the copy side, and landscaping at the base of every off-premises sign must be maintained, with any tree over four inches in diameter removed for construction replaced on a one-for-one basis with native species. The purpose clause opening Sec. 10-03-08.M ties these structural and lighting standards to protecting the scenic and aesthetic environment along the City's interstate corridor. A billboard erected or illuminated without meeting these structure specifications is enforced the same way as any other UDO sign violation.