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

Section 13-09-050 is the billboard rule in Article 13-09 of the Prescott Valley Town Code. The Town Council rewrote and re-codified it by Ordinance No. 2024-947 on December 11, 2024; it was previously section 13-23-140. Subsection F fixes where a billboard can stand: only in the PM (Performance Manufacturing) zone, never within 400 feet of another billboard on the same street, and never closer than 600 feet from the right-of-way line of any freeway. The one adjustment is at an interchange where an arterial street and the freeway cross at a 90-degree angle: there the 600 feet is measured from the center line of the freeway. Subsection F.7 then overrides every other requirement in the Article and bars billboards from the Special Gateways/Highway Corridors of the Town as defined in the Chapter.

Subsection E adds the build standards. Face area cannot exceed 200 square feet in any single direction, width cannot exceed 20 feet, and the bottom of the billboard must clear the ground by at least ten feet. Illumination cannot be intermittent, flashing, scintillating, animated, or of varying intensity, and no billboard can emit sound. Engineered plans must accompany the building permit application and need Building Department approval first.

If section 13-09-050 conflicts with any other section of the Town Code, subsection B makes this section prevail. Under subsection D, a billboard that complied when built but fails today is a nonconforming billboard and can stay in use unless it creates a traffic hazard, is damaged and the cost to reconstruct or repair it exceeds 50% of its current market value, or is structurally altered, re-erected, or replaced. Section 13-09-020 defines a billboard as an off-site sign.