Pico Rivera, CA Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

Section 18.20.120 of the Pico Rivera Municipal Code regulates every new, expanded or converted digital billboard in the City. The Physical Requirements in Subsection C set the core numeric limits: the maximum total digital billboard face area on any vertical plane is 1,200 square feet per sign face, and the maximum height, measured from the bottom of the supports to the highest point of the sign face, is 75 feet. Each structure is limited to one digital face per vertical plane, all utilities serving the billboard must run underground, and the sign must display the owner or operator's name and the billboard's identification number so it is visible from at least 100 feet away.

Subsection C(11) adds a residential buffer: a digital billboard must sit at least 250 feet from the closest edge of any residential zone or residential use, measured to the closest property line, unless the Zoning Administrator finds, based on a required photometric study, that placing it that far away would not meaningfully reduce light intrusion. Billboards projecting over a driveway or driving aisle need 30 feet of clearance to the pavement, and those over a pedestrian walkway need the same 30-foot clearance to the walkway grade, with no part of any billboard allowed to cross onto adjacent property.

Every digital billboard also needs a maintenance service that can respond to malfunctions 24 hours a day, seven days a week, under Subsection B(7), and any new billboard along the 605 Freeway requires a development agreement with the City Council under Subsection B(2).