Fairfield, CA Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

B lets the City relocate an existing billboard when the City and the sign's owner sign a relocation agreement connected to an eminent domain proceeding under California Business and Professions Code Section 5412. Even then, the relocation cannot raise the total number of off-site sign faces citywide, and the relocated structure cannot sit within 500 linear feet of a residential zoning district. 3 layers on tighter conditions specifically for digital billboards: if the relocated sign is an electronic message board, the relocation has to produce a net reduction in the City's total off-site sign faces, and the new location has to be at least 2,500 linear feet from any other electronic message board.

Before any of that happens, the sign owner must show the City satisfactory proof of the right to use the new site, and the City Council itself has to review and approve the relocation agreement; the Director and Planning Commission cannot sign off on their own. 7 gives digital displays one advantage other signs don't get: their changeable copy isn't capped at the 25 percent limit that applies to ordinary changeable-copy signs. G separately bans new off-site advertising structures, including billboards, outright.