Dunwoody, GA Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

Digital sign regulation in Dunwoody runs through § 20-61, which limits electronic message centers to three contexts: as a component of gasoline station signage, quasi-public/institutional uses, and signage within the perimeter center overlay district; the code does not authorize a general freestanding digital billboard anywhere else in the city. Within those allowed contexts, an EMC cannot sit within 125 feet of a signalized intersection, measured along the right-of-way from where the intersecting streets' rights-of-way meet. daily. Each message must remain static for at least ten seconds before the next one appears, and a message can change only by fading or dissolving, never by scrolling, traveling or flashing, with the fade transition itself taking no less than eight seconds.

The code separately bars any portion of the display from simulating motion through pictorial imagery, expanding or contracting shapes, or moving bands of light, and requires the sign to freeze on one static image, show a full black screen, or shut off if it malfunctions. 3 footcandles above ambient conditions, measured at 100 feet for signs up to 100 square feet, 150 feet for signs from 101 to 300 square feet, and 200 feet for signs over 300 square feet. Portable electronic message signs are banned outright, and an EMC cannot be part of any limited duration sign. Manual changeable copy signs, the non-electronic version, are allowed only for the same quasi-public/institutional and gas station uses.