Carrollton, TX Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

71 of Carrollton's sign code lets only certain existing nonconforming commercial billboards convert to digital faces, and only under conditions the section spells out. The owner must file a digital billboard permit application with the Building Inspection Department, pay the standard building-permit fee, and get the tract owner's signature; once the City Manager or designee approves the conversion, the owner must separately obtain a demolition permit and tear down conventional billboard faces under the required exchange ratio before the new digital face goes up. That ratio, set in subsection (D), is steep: for every digital sign face erected, three static full billboard faces within the city must come down, and a removed face only counts toward the ratio if its entire support structure is eliminated, not just the sign panel.

260 for electronic signs, and satisfy all federal, state and local lighting and safety standards for brightness, message duration and proximity to interchanges. Message changes are tightly timed: a minimum eight-second cycle between message changes, each change completed within two seconds, changing simultaneously across the whole face, with no flashing, dimming or brightening outside a change. to distribute the available permits. Converting a billboard under this section does not change its underlying nonconforming or illegal legal status.