San Jose, CA Outdoor Lighting: Billboard Lighting (2026)

Billboards may be illuminated by continuous lighting. Their light source shall not have appendages which protrude more than eight linear feet from the wall on which the billboard is mounted or from the message surface of a freestanding billboard.G.Setback. Freestanding billboards shall be set back from abutting streets in accordance with the most stringent of the following requirements:1.The setback requirements of Chapter 20.80;2.The setback requirements of Sections 20.40.200 to 20.40.300 of Title 20; or3.The setback from preexisting buildings on abutting sites specified hereinafter:a.If the closest preexisting building on each of the abutting sites is within two hundred linear feet of a proposed freestanding billboard, the billboard shall be set back from the abutting street behind the shortest line which can be drawn between those preexisting buildings from the exterior wall (including the edge or corner) of each which is closest to and exposed toward the streetline; orb.If only one abutting site has any preexisting building within two hundred linear feet of the proposed billboard, then setback from the abutting street shall be at least equal to the distance between the streetline and the closest preexisting building on the abutting street.c.An "abutting site" for purposes of Section 23.04.450.G.3. is a parcel which abuts both the parcel on which the proposed billboard will be situated and the street from which the billboard is to be set back. (Ord. 24201.)