Ridgefield, CT Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

C, Signs Permitted in Any District, lists the sign types allowed townwide, and item 12 sets Digital/Electronic Signs apart from the rest of that list: unlike the temporary real-estate, contractor and community-sign-board entries around it, digital signage carries the parenthetical note Special Permit required, added by amendment A-23-2 effective July 14, 2023. That means a digital sign cannot go up under a routine Zoning Permit the way a standard wall or freestanding sign can; it needs Commission review and approval as a Special Permit application.

G, Sign Illumination, layers on numeric brightness controls: digital or electronic signage, or any other self-luminous sign, when approved by Special Permit, shall be designed and/or controlled with luminosity limit of 150 nits during nighttime/dark conditions, and 5,000 nits during daytime/sunlight conditions. The same subsection encourages, without requiring, automatic dimming tied to ambient light within that range, and separately bars animated, flashing or moving illumination on any sign unless the Commission specifically approves it. C, D or E.