Buckeye, AZ Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)
Key Facts
- Citywide cap
- 10 digital billboards, first-come-first-served
- Luminance limit
- 0.3 footcandles over ambient light
- Curfew
- Off from 11 p.m. to sunrise
- Max size
- 672 sq ft, 45 ft height
- Message change
- No faster than every 8 seconds
Summary
Buckeye caps digital billboards at 0.3 footcandles above ambient light, requires automatic dimming, and forces an 11 p.m.-to-sunrise shutdown, with a hard citywide cap of ten billboards along I-10, SR-85, and future SR-30.
No more than a total of ten new digital billboard or non-digital billboard to digital billboard conversions may be approved by the City...on a first-come, first-served basis...The luminance of all digital billboards must not exceed 0.3 footcandles over ambient lighting conditions...all digital billboard light sources must be extinguished from 11:00 p.m. until sunrise.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 22 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
Buckeye's Development Code allows only ten digital billboards citywide, approved first-come-first-served, and bars any new static-billboard-to-digital conversions beyond that count. They're limited to parcels along I-10, SR-85, or future SR-30, within 175 feet of the travel lane. Structures cap at 45 feet (65 feet to the pylon top) and 672 square feet per face, with 1,320-foot separation from other billboards and 500 feet from residential zoning districts. Luminance can't exceed 0.3 footcandles over ambient light, sensors must auto-dim, and displays must go dark from 11 p.m. to sunrise except for amber alerts. Messages may change no more than once every eight seconds, with no video, scrolling, or animation.
Violations & Fines
Operating without a Sign Permit and Site Plan Review, exceeding the ten-billboard citywide cap, or keeping the display lit past 11 p.m. draws code enforcement action and can force removal.
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