Sun Prairie, WI Sign Regulations: Holiday Displays (2026)

050 lists sign types that Sun Prairie allows in every zoning district without requiring a sign permit, and subsection J covers holiday displays directly: holiday signs and decorations, described as temporary displays as part of a holiday or civic event, are exempt. 040's other applicable standards. 060, which cap displays at 60 days a year. That contrast matters for anyone trying to time a holiday display: the code simply does not set a clock on how long lights, wreaths or civic-event decorations may stay up, so long as the display remains tied to an actual holiday or civic event rather than functioning as a permanent or commercial sign.

A display that outlives any connection to a holiday or event, or that otherwise functions as ordinary advertising, would fall outside subsection J's exemption and back into the standard permit and size rules for signs generally.