Redding, CA Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

080, the same section that bars flashing lights confused with traffic signals and off-site advertising generally. Subsection (B) states plainly that billboards are prohibited, carving out only signs erected before the code's adoption that already hold city entitlements and that continue to comply with the state Outdoor Advertising Act. Subsection (D) extends that ban to digital displays: electronic message board signs, defined elsewhere in the code as signs that use lighting to change their advertising message several times within a single hour, are prohibited everywhere in the city with one narrow carve-out.

14 of the zoning ordinance. Nonconforming electronic message boards that were installed before this section took effect may keep operating if they comply with whatever city entitlement originally authorized them, but no new digital billboard, changeable-copy sign, or large-screen display can be erected for a private business, gas station, or shopping center anywhere in Redding's commercial or industrial districts. The related Changeable Copy Sign definition in the code's definitions chapter sweeps in electronic message boards, large projector or television screens, and electronic time-and-temperature units, so the prohibition is not limited to a single display technology.