Glendale, AZ Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

310(B) only allows a digital billboard on a lot zoned Planned Area Development that sits in one of three named township-range sections along the Gila and Salt River Base and Meridian, and only if the PAD has at least 1,000 linear feet of frontage on Loop 101 (Agua Fria Freeway) or Loop 303 (Estrella Freeway), or, for pre-2024 PADs on Loop 303, one digital billboard is allowed regardless of frontage. Each qualifying sign must sit within 300 feet of the freeway right-of-way, keep 1,760 feet from any other digital billboard on the same PAD, and set back at least 330 feet from a neighboring, non-PAD property line along the freeway.

The code caps a digital billboard at sixty feet tall, fifty feet wide, and 675 square feet of sign area, and bars any digital billboard within 1,000 feet of a single-residence zoning district, including RR-90 through R1-4 and land in unincorporated Maricopa County platted before January 1, 2000. Message changes are limited to once every eight seconds with no fade, dissolve or animation effects, message sequencing across multiple digital billboards is banned, and each advertisement is limited to a single frame; a malfunctioning sign must default to a black display.

Only one digital billboard may go up before the first phase of a PAD's development, and any additional signs must be integrated into a comprehensive sign package reviewed through the Master Development Plan. 305(G), and Design Review approval is a mandatory precondition for every digital billboard permit.