Goodyear, AZ Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)
Key Facts
- Billboards
- Prohibited citywide, § 4.6.6(B)(2)
- Off-site advertising signs
- Also prohibited, § 4.6.6(B)(3)
- Digital displays allowed
- One per monument sign side
- Size cap
- 24 sq ft or 50% of copy area
- Change rate
- No faster than once per 8 seconds
- Night curfew
- Off 10 PM to sunrise near homes
- Brightness cap
- 300 nits from dusk to dawn
Summary
Goodyear bans billboards and off-site advertising signs outright citywide, while allowing only one on-site electronic message display per monument sign side under strict technical limits. Digital displays must stay static, dim automatically after dark, cap brightness at 300 nits, and shut off between 10 p.m. and sunrise near single-family homes.
a. A permitted monument sign may utilize one (1) electronic message display per side... d. An electronic message display may occupy up to fifty (50) percent of the allowable sign copy area of the monument sign or twenty-four (24) square feet, whichever is less. e. An electronic message display shall have static displays. The display of video, animation, or special effects, such as traveling, scrolling, fading, dissolving, and bursting, shall be prohibited. No sound may be emitted by the display. f. Static displays on an electronic message display shall not be changed more than once every eight (8) seconds... g. Display brightness shall not exceed three hundred (300) nits from dusk till dawn. h. An electronic message display shall be shut off between 10:00 P.M. and sunrise when such display is located within one hundred and fifty (150) feet of a single-family residential zoning district... j. The use of an electronic message display for off-site advertising is prohibited.
Full Breakdown
6(B)(3). " Content is tightly restricted: the display "shall have static displays. The display of video, animation, or special effects, such as traveling, scrolling, fading, dissolving, and bursting, shall be prohibited. "
Violations & Fines
Any sign not expressly permitted by Article 4.6 is prohibited under Section 4.6.6(A), so an unpermitted digital display or any billboard is unlawful on sight. Section 4.6.4(F) lets the Chief Building Official order correction of an unsafe or noncompliant sign within 48 hours, or remove it immediately without notice if it poses a hazard, billing all removal and repair costs to the sign or property owner.
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