Victorville, CA Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)
Key Facts
- Conversion ratio
- 3 billboards removed per 1 digital sign
- Governing section
- VMC § 16-3.22.190
- New billboards
- Prohibited citywide, § 16-3.22.050(a)
- Review body
- Zoning Administrator, administrative Site Plan review
- Message change rate
- Every 6 seconds to 2 minutes
- Alternate pathway
- Billboard Relocation Agreement, § 16-3.22.180
Summary
Victorville bans new billboards outright but lets an owner convert an existing legal nonconforming billboard to a digital display only by removing three other legal nonconforming billboards citywide and building the one digital sign at one of the removed locations, under Municipal Code Section 16-3.22.190. The Zoning Administrator reviews the swap through an administrative Site Plan application.
Sec. 16-3.22.190: - Billboard Conversion to Digital Display When Reduction Only is Sought When no relocation of a billboard is being considered, and when the applicant desires to modify or replace an existing billboard with a Digital Display, the applicant shall remove three (3) existing legal nonconforming billboards within the City and erect one (1) digital display in the same location as one of the billboards being removed. A Site Plan application shall be reviewed administratively and determined by the City's Zoning Administrator.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 57).
Full Breakdown
190. 190 is the digital-conversion path when no relocation is sought: an applicant who wants to modify or replace an existing billboard with a Digital Display must first remove three existing legal nonconforming billboards elsewhere in the city, then erect one digital display sign in the same location as one of the billboards being removed. That three-for-one removal ratio is meant to shrink the citywide inventory of legal nonconforming billboards while allowing conversion to digital technology. The Zoning Administrator reviews and determines the Site Plan application administratively rather than sending it to the Planning Commission.
190 conversion approval. The Development Code defines a "Sign, digital display" as an electronic advertising display for billboards where the message changes more than once every two minutes but not more than once every six seconds, which sets the outer bound on how frequently a converted digital billboard's copy may rotate.
Violations & Fines
Erecting, converting, or expanding a billboard outside the Section 16-3.22.180 relocation or Section 16-3.22.190 digital-conversion pathways violates the Section 16-3.22.050 sign prohibitions and Section 16-3.22.020's requirement that no sign be erected, constructed, attached, or maintained except in conformity with Article 22; the code declares any such violation illegal and it is enforced under the general Section 1.04.010 misdemeanor or infraction penalty schedule.
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