Eastvale, CA Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)
Key Facts
- Citywide limit
- 1 freeway-oriented electronic billboard
- Permitted corridor
- I-15, Hwy 60 south ~3,794 ft
- Approval needed
- Development agreement + council/commission
- General billboard zones
- C-1/C-P, M-SC, M-M, M-H only
- General billboard height cap
- 25 feet
- General display face cap
- 300 sq. ft.
Summary
Eastvale allows exactly one freeway-oriented electronic billboard citywide, sited only along a roughly 3,794-foot stretch of I-15 south of the Highway 60 interchange. Its design must be approved by both the planning commission and city council under a development agreement, per Municipal Code Sec. 120.05.070(d)(6).
(5)Billboards...a.Zoning. Billboards are permitted only in the C-1/C-P, M-SC, M-M and M-H zones provided that the display meets all of the other requirements of the zoning classification and this title. Signs are expressly prohibited in all other zones.b.Height. The maximum height of a billboard shall not exceed a height of 25 feet from the roadbed of the adjacent freeway or highway...g.Display face size. No billboard face shall have a total surface area of more than 300 square feet. ... (6)Freeway-oriented electronic billboard. Freeway-oriented electronic billboards shall be subject to the following:a.No more than one freeway oriented electronic billboard shall be allowed within the city.b.A single freeway-oriented electronic billboard shall only be permitted in the area along the I-15 freeway beginning at the Hwy 60 freeway and extending south approximately 3,794 feet (the area in which current federal law would allow the placement of these signs).c.All design standards and specifications will be identified in a development agreement with the city and will require approval by the planning commission and city council.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 16 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
Billboards in Eastvale are already zoned out of most of the city. Municipal Code Sec. 070(d)(5)a restricts billboards to the C-1/C-P, M-SC, M-M and M-H zones and expressly prohibits them everywhere else, with a maximum height of 25 feet and a display face capped at 300 square feet. Layered on top of that, Sec. 070(d)(6) singles out electronic billboards for tighter treatment: no more than one freeway-oriented electronic billboard is allowed within the entire city, and it can only be located along the I-15 freeway beginning at the Hwy 60 freeway interchange and extending south approximately 3,794 feet, the stretch the code says federal law allows for such placement.
Rather than a standard sign permit, an electronic billboard here requires a development agreement with the city, and every design standard and specification must be spelled out in that agreement and separately approved by both the planning commission and the city council. That two-body approval, on top of the one-billboard citywide cap, makes this one of the most tightly gated sign types in Eastvale's code. Community electronic message signs at schools and parks are a separate, city-operated sign type under Sec. 070(g) and are not the freeway billboard this section governs.
Violations & Fines
A freeway-oriented electronic billboard erected without an approved development agreement, or a second such billboard, or one placed outside the designated I-15 corridor, violates Sec. 120.05.070(d)(6). Sign code violations are enforced as infractions or misdemeanors under Sec. 1.01.220, carrying fines up to $500 for repeat infractions or up to $1,000 and six months in county jail for a misdemeanor.
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