West Palm Beach, FL Sign Regulations: Window Signs (2026)

Chapter 94, the Zoning and Land Development Regulations, sets West Palm Beach's window sign limit inside Article IV's Downtown Master Plan Urban Regulations. Sec. 94-110(c) covers commercial and mixed-use signage within the urban core, special district planning areas, and commercial properties fronting North Railroad Avenue in the Brelsford Park Residential (BPD-R) subdistrict. ' The same section separately regulates vacant ground-floor storefronts under item 5: those spaces may cover up to 100 percent of their glazing with non-advertising 'urban lifestyle imagery,' but signage promoting a new business or a leasing opportunity for the vacant space is capped at 50 percent of the glazing area.

Sec. 94-110(b) layers on citywide construction rules that apply alongside the window-sign cap: all mounting hardware must be non-corrosive stainless steel, aluminum, brass or bronze, exposed conduit and raceways are prohibited, and audible, flashing, paper, and internally illuminated box signs are barred outright everywhere the section applies. Sign face area itself is measured using the method in Sec. 94-405. Property owners inside these downtown districts should measure total glazed storefront area first, since the 25 percent cap is calculated against that figure rather than against the wall or facade area, and vacant-storefront film signage can substitute for the window-treatment requirement in Sec. 18-232 of the general code.