Sedona, AZ Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

15, Prohibited Signs, opens with a blanket rule that signs not specifically authorized are expressly prohibited, then lists categories that are barred outright. Three of those subsections target digital and animated signage directly. Subsection E bans signs having intermittent or flashing illumination, animated or moving parts, or that rotate or simulate movement by fluttering, spinning, reflection devices, or that emit sound, except where another part of Article 6 specifically permits it. Subsection F bans electronic message signs outright, again except as otherwise provided elsewhere in the Code.

Subsection G separately prohibits freestanding changeable copy signs, the manual-letter-board style sign that a digital billboard would functionally replace, unless another provision specifically authorizes it. Because Article 6 does not carve out a permit path for LED or video billboards, in practice a digital or electronic billboard has no route to legal placement in Sedona: it would violate the flashing and animated-parts ban, the electronic-message-sign ban, and, if freestanding, the changeable-copy ban simultaneously. B(5)d. Sedona's sign code is built around fixed, non-illuminated or steadily lit copy, consistent with the City's broader dark-sky and scenic-preservation goals for Article 6 as a whole, so a would-be billboard operator would need a Code amendment, not a variance, to get a digital display approved.