Baldwin Park, CA Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

110, added by Ord. 050(G) otherwise bans off-site signs outright. A new billboard, static or digital, may be installed only within the 'interstate freeway corridor,' defined as the area within 200 feet of an interstate highway right-of-way on commercially or industrially zoned property, referencing Business and Professions Code §§ 5202, 5203, 5215 and 5222. Before construction, the owner must obtain Caltrans approval and execute an agreement with the city covering indemnification, mitigation measures and, where the city requires it, removal of existing billboards; the property owner must separately consent to the city entering the property to remove the structure.

Each new structure may carry no more than two digital faces facing different directions. The active display face is capped at 48 feet wide, 14 feet tall and 672 square feet, with an apron extending no more than about 36 inches below the face, plus limited top and side extensions; overall structure height is capped at 65 feet excluding extensions. Spacing rules require at least 500 feet between static billboards or between a static and a digital billboard, and at least 1,000 feet between two digital billboards, matching Caltrans' own separation criteria under BPC § 5222.

Where the city requires removal of existing structures to approve new ones, replacing four or fewer requires eight additional display faces removed citywide, and replacing five or more requires two additional removed faces for each structure above four, all completed before construction begins.