Hollywood, FL Outdoor Lighting: Billboard Lighting (2026)

3 of Hollywood's Zoning and Land Development Regulations governs sign lighting directly: all lights and lighting from a sign must be designed and arranged so they do not cause direct glare onto another property or into the eyes of passing motorists or pedestrians. The section then closes the list to exactly four permitted illumination methods: internal lighting inside individual channel letters or symbols with a translucent face, halo lighting placed behind individual reverse channel letters, external fixtures directed to shine onto the sign face provided they are discreet and architecturally compatible, and exposed neon, though neon is barred on monument signs specifically.

A billboard, defined earlier in Article 8 as a sign or sign structure, is a sign for purposes of this lighting standard, so an illuminated billboard face must be lit by one of these four methods and stay glare-free. B for the sign structure itself; each illuminated sign needs its own electrical permit rather than one blanket permit covering multiple signs. A also independently bars any sign, billboard included, that is of such intensity or brilliance as to cause glare or impair a driver's vision, layering a safety-based glare rule on top of the four-method lighting list.