Redondo Beach, CA Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)
Key Facts
- Billboards
- Prohibited citywide, § 10-2.1818(g)
- Animated/digital signs
- Banned except narrow LED exception
- LED display eligibility
- Theater (1,000+ seats) or school site only
- Operating hours limit
- Off midnight (or 8 p.m.) to 6 a.m.
- Harbor/Pier exception
- One digital sign, four static directories
- Nonconforming billboard removal
- Amortization period ended June 6, 1996
Summary
Redondo Beach outlaws billboards outright, and the ban reaches digital displays too: Section 10-2.1818 lists 'Billboards' among prohibited signs and separately bars animated signs, exempting only barber poles, time-temperature signs, and the narrow electronic message displays approved under Sections 10-2.1814 and 10-2.1815.
(c) Animated signs, except barber poles and time-temperature signs, and electric message display signs permitted pursuant to Section 10-2.1814 and 10-2.1815; ... (g) Billboards;
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4889554; v14 updated 2026-05-12).
Full Breakdown
1815. Those two carve-outs are narrow by design. if it faces anything but a major arterial. 1815 opens a second, geography-specific door: within the Harbor/Pier Special District along North Harbor Drive between Portofino Way and North Pacific Avenue, the City allows exactly one electronic message display sign with Harbor Commission Design Review, plus up to four static electronic directory signs no larger than four feet by six feet. 2006(b) requires removal of a nonconforming billboard on a change in illumination, structure, or use, if it is more than 90% destroyed, if its use lapses for a year, if the Chief Building Official calls it unsafe, or because the five-year amortization period the City set under Ordinance 2617 ran out on June 6, 1996.
Violations & Fines
Erecting a new billboard, digital or static, violates Section 10-2.1818 outright and cannot be approved through any design review track. Community Development can order it removed as a prohibited sign, and because posting a prohibited sign is a Code violation, Section 1-2.01 makes it a misdemeanor, up to a $1,000 fine or six months in jail or both, with each day the sign stays up counted as a separate offense.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is there anywhere in the City that allows a digital sign near the water?
Sources & Official References
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