Roswell, GA Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)
Key Facts
- Electronic changeable copy
- Prohibited
- Manual changeable copy
- Allowed, ground signs only
- Max changeable area
- 50% of sign, 32 sf cap
- Exception
- Fuel-price signs per state law
Summary
Roswell's Unified Development Code bans electronic changeable-copy signs outright, allowing only manually changed copy on a permitted ground sign.
Manual changeable copy is allowed in conjunction with a permitted ground sign. No electronic changeable copy is allowed.2.The changeable copy portion of the ground sign can be no greater than 50% of the total sign area, however, in no case can the changeable copy portion of the ground sign exceed 32 square feet in area. 10.3.42a
3.Ground signs permitted with the use of a convenience store with fuel pumps are allowed to have changeable copy as provided for by the laws and regulations of the State of Georgia. (Ord. No. 2022-08-12, § 1, 8-22-2022)
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 17 | Unified Development Code: Supplement 5).
Full Breakdown
UDC section 10.3.42 regulates changeable-copy signs citywide. Manual changeable copy - letters or panels swapped by hand - is allowed only on a permitted ground sign, capped at 50% of the sign's area or 32 square feet, whichever is smaller. The same subsection states flatly that 'No electronic changeable copy is allowed,' which bars digital billboards, LED message centers, and electronic reader boards outside one narrow exception for fuel-price signs at gas stations, permitted under Georgia law.
Violations & Fines
Installing an electronic message board, LED reader board, or digital billboard violates UDC section 10.3.42.B.1's flat ban on electronic changeable copy; the Zoning Director can order removal, and Article 10.3 violations carry a fine up to $1,000 under section 10.3.19.F.
Frequently Asked Questions
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