Sahuarita, AZ Sign Regulations: Holiday Displays (2026)

030(A)(1). Within that design review, the code states plainly that outline lighting of a building is prohibited, and then excludes temporary decorative holiday lighting from that ban. That means a business cannot permanently wire its roofline, parapet or facade with strip or rope lighting as a year-round architectural feature, since that is the outline lighting the section forbids, but it may still put up string lights or other decorative holiday displays on a temporary, seasonal basis without those lights counting as a design review violation.

The design review chapter applies its standards using three labels, Requirement (R), Presumption (P) and Consideration (C), and the outline lighting rule is drafted as an outright requirement rather than a discretionary guideline, so town staff enforce it without discretion during building permit and design review approval. 82 only reaches development requiring a building permit in commercial, industrial and institutional/utility projects, the outline lighting ban and its holiday exception do not extend to single-family residential homes, which fall outside this chapter's applicability entirely.