Queen Creek, AZ Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

The Town of Queen Creek's Zoning Ordinance, current as of its May 2026 update, closes off digital billboards through two separate, overlapping prohibitions in Article 7's sign regulations. B opens by stating that 'signs not specifically authorized are prohibited, including but not limited to the following,' then lists twelve categories of banned signage. Item 5, Permanent Off-site Sign, prohibits 'any form of remote signage, such as off-premises advertising signs or billboards' anywhere in the Town, with no separate track for electronic displays; an LED board advertising a business located elsewhere is banned regardless of size or brightness.

Item 1, Animated Signs, separately prohibits any sign that changes physical position, rotates, or gives the visual impression of movement, with only a narrow carve-out for approved pennants, banners, flags, revolving barber poles and combined time-and-temperature displays capped at three square feet of face area. The Definitions article extends that prohibition to digital message boards: under the Sign, Changeable Copy definition, any display whose message changes more than eight times a day is reclassified as a prohibited animated sign rather than a lawful changeable-copy sign, sweeping in most rotating digital-ad displays even when they sit on the same parcel as the business they advertise.

b sends any such proposal to the Planning and Zoning Commission for review rather than administrative sign-off, and that review still operates inside the Article 7 ban on off-site and animated signage. Because a commercial digital billboard is by definition both remote advertising and a frequently updating electronic display, it is caught twice: once as a prohibited off-site sign, and again as a prohibited animated sign if it rotates more than eight messages a day.