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

Sec. A governs on-premise commercial activity post-and-panel signs, the temporary signs businesses post during an active development, building permit, or marketing period on commercially, industrially, or mixed-use zoned lots. The default standard limits these signs to five feet in height and 16 square feet in area. ii carve out a specific bonus: a sign placed 10 feet behind a dedicated scenic corridor easement, or adjacent to a property line abutting the Loop 101 Pima Freeway frontage road, can rise to 10 feet tall and cover up to 32 square feet, exactly double the normal limits in both dimensions.

The number of signs allowed still follows the same lot-width formula as any other post-and-panel sign: one sign on lots under 1,200 feet of street frontage, two on wider lots, with one additional sign for each extra 600 feet of frontage, capped at six signs per street frontage. Signs must sit on private property, cannot create a traffic hazard or block a sidewalk or pathway, and are barred from illumination, searchlights, amplified sound, animation, reflective materials, balloons, flags, pinwheels, ribbons, or speakers regardless of which height and area tier applies.

The bonus exists because frontage road parcels along the freeway sit further back from the actual right-of-way, so the code lets signage there be larger to stay visible from the freeway travel lanes.