Tustin, CA Sign Regulations: Political Signs (2026)

Tustin City Code Section 9402 defines a political sign as any sign pertaining to a candidate for public office or a ballot issue pending before the electorate, and classifies political signs as a category of noncommercial sign alongside protected speech signs, public event signs and non-profit event signs. Section 9403e13 governs temporary non-commercial signs, requiring written permission of the property owner for placement on private property, capping such signs at thirty-two square feet in size and ten feet in height, and requiring the responsible party's name, address and phone number on the sign.

Signs placed no traffic signal, utility pole or tree may carry them. In the public parkway area, additional rules apply: signs may only be posted between twenty-five and three hundred feet of a street intersection, are limited to four square feet and four feet in height, cannot be located in a visual clearance area, and a temporary non-commercial sign is capped at forty-five days per calendar quarter, with signs tied to a specific event required to come down no later than five days after the event.

Section 9413 separately preserves that no provision of the sign chapter may be read to limit the right of owners of authorized signs to display noncommercial messages, meaning the City cannot single out political viewpoints for extra restriction, but the size, duration and location limits of Section 9403e13 apply evenhandedly to political and other noncommercial signs. A sign left up past forty-five days, or five days after its event, is deemed abandoned and the Community Development Director may remove it and bill the responsible party.