Palmdale, CA Sign Regulations: Political Signs (2026)

Chapter 17.88 (Signs) folds political candidate signs into its broader Temporary Signs framework at PMC § 17.88.070(L). Subsection (L)(5), Temporary Noncommercial Signs, is written specifically to protect these signs from tampering: no person may remove, destroy, relocate, or otherwise disturb a temporary noncommercial sign, or authorize someone else to do so, without the permission of whoever erected it. The Section builds in an evidentiary presumption to make that protection enforceable: as to signs for political candidates, the code presumes the candidate or his or her representative is the party who put the sign up, and for ballot-measure signs it presumes the committee registered with the Secretary of State for that position erected it.

Because political signs fall under the general temporary-sign standards in (L), the same baseline rules apply: no more than one temporary sign is allowed per authorized use, temporary signs must be nonilluminated, and a temporary sign displayed for a specific event or activity must come down within 10 calendar days of that event. PMC § 17.88.090(B) separately bars any sign, temporary or not, from obstructing a driveway, sidewalk, or the clear view of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, or blocking a window, door, fire escape, or other emergency exit. The Chapter also commits the City to not imposing greater restrictions on noncommercial speech than on commercial speech or advertising, which is why a political sign gets the same physical-standards treatment, not stricter ones, as a comparable commercial temporary sign.