Parker, CO Sign Regulations: Holiday Displays (2026)

The Sign Code, Chapter 13.09 of the Parker Municipal Code, lists holiday lighting displays among the signs exempt from permitting and registration under Section 13.09.020(c). That exemption applies only to lights temporarily affixed to a building or landscaping, so ground-mounted inflatable figures or freestanding holiday structures fall outside it and must instead register as ordinary temporary signs under Section 13.09.040. Two conditions attach to the exemption. First, the display has to comply with the lighting standards in Section 13.08.110(c)(3), which separately lists temporary, holiday lighting displays among the exemptions from the Town's general exterior lighting chapter, meaning holiday lights are not held to the 25,000-lumen cap, the full-cutoff shielding rule, or the color-temperature standard that apply to permanent fixtures.

Second, the display can run for no longer than two consecutive months per calendar year in any zoning district townwide, with a single carve-out: properties in the Downtown East zoning district may keep holiday lighting up year-round. The Town of Parker does not tie the two-month clock to a fixed calendar season; it runs from whenever the display goes up. Because the exemption sits in the Sign Code rather than the lighting chapter, Community Development, which administers Sign Permits and registration under Section 13.03.040(o), is the department that fields questions about whether a display still qualifies as temporary holiday lighting or has become a permanent fixture requiring separate review.