Victorville, CA Outdoor Lighting: Billboard Lighting (2026)

Sec. 070(k) is the City's general illumination provision for signs. It bars exposed fluorescent tubes or incandescent bulbs over fifteen watts unless part of an approved Master Sign Plan or a theater or cinema marquee, requires commercial and industrial signs within 200 feet of a residential district to be sited and built to minimize visibility from that district, prohibits flashing or blinking animated signs absent Zoning Administrator approval, requires cabinet signs to have opaque backgrounds so only the lettering and logo are lit, and bars internally illuminated awnings.

The opening clause of subsection (k) carves digital display billboards entirely out of that list, so long as the billboard was erected under a Billboard Relocation Agreement under Sec. 180 or under the reduction-only conversion path in Sec. 190. Sec. 190 lets an owner convert an existing billboard to a digital display without relocating it, provided the applicant removes three existing legal nonconforming billboards elsewhere in the City and erects one digital display in the same location as one of the billboards being removed; the City's Zoning Administrator reviews that swap administratively through a Site Plan application rather than through the standard sign-permit illumination checklist.