Revere, MA Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

Section 17.36.030 draws a hard line against digital signage across nearly the whole city: no sign in the RA, RA1, RB, RB1, RC, RC1, RC2, RC3, PDD1, PDD2, NB, GB, GB1, DB, LI or IP districts may be a digital sign. The only opening is a special permit, and even that is limited: digital signage may be allowed by special permit only in the HB and TED districts, subject to a traffic impact analysis that must be approved by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, not just the city. An approved digital sign in HB or TED must sit at least one hundred feet from any public way and at least three hundred feet from any residence, school, public park, playground or other public grounds.

Converting an existing static billboard to a digital one is regulated separately, and just as tightly, under Section 17.36.120: no static billboard in the long list of residential, business and industrial districts named in that section may be converted to digital, and conversion may be allowed by special permit only in the TED District, again subject to a MassDOT-approved traffic impact analysis. Notice that TED is the only conversion district, narrower than the two districts, HB and TED, open to a brand-new digital sign application under Section 17.36.030. Both provisions trace to City Council Order 18-075, adopted May 7, 2018, which built out Revere's entire digital-sign framework in one ordinance.