Glendale, AZ Sign Regulations: Freeway-Facing Signs (2026)

310 of the Unified Development Code governs freeway-facing billboards citywide. Static billboards need a sign permit and cannot be erected within 660 feet of any planned or existing freeway, expressway, parkway or officially designated transportation corridor. No new static billboard may go up unless the applicant proves an existing static billboard was removed from within Glendale's limits; removing a sign under 300 square feet allows a replacement up to the removed sign's area or 300 square feet, whichever is less, and four or more small billboards (75 square feet or less each) can be banked toward one 300-square-foot replacement.

New or altered static billboards must sit at least 600 feet from the nearest existing static billboard, include base landscaping at 15 square feet per linear foot of sign, and cannot exceed 300 square feet in area or 25 feet in height. Digital billboards face tighter siting: the parcel must carry Planned Area Development zoning within specific township/range areas, sit within 300 feet of the freeway right-of-way, and be at least 1,760 feet from any other digital billboard on the same PAD and 330 feet from the property line of adjacent non-PAD land fronting Loop 101 or Loop 303.

Maximum height is 60 feet and maximum sign area is 675 square feet. No digital billboard may sit within 1,000 feet of a single-residence zoning district. 1009, and digital messages can change no more than once every 8 seconds with no fade, dissolve or animation effects.