Sign Regulations in Colorado (2026)

Colorado state law prohibits homeowner associations from banning political signs on member property during election…

Adams County regulates political signs content-neutrally as temporary signs. On residential lots one temporary sign up…

In unincorporated Boulder County, political and other noncommercial signs are allowed anywhere a commercial sign is…

In residential Castle Rock you may place one sign on your own property, no larger than 6 square feet and no more than 4…

In unincorporated Douglas County, political signs are regulated content-neutrally as temporary signs. They need no…

Fort Collins treats political yard signs the same as any other temporary yard sign: the Sign Code is expressly…

Jeffco's sign code is content-neutral: political/campaign signs are regulated as "Temporary Ground Signs." Up to six…

Lakewood's Zoning Ordinance dropped its old political-sign category to comply with Reed v. Gilbert; a political message…

Election signs need no permit in unincorporated Larimer County and may be placed for 60 days before an election. On…

Littleton doesn't license political signs separately: it regulates every sign by structure and size, not by message…

Arapahoe County's Land Development Code treats political and campaign signs the same as any other temporary sign: no…

Aurora has no separate political-sign permit. Its Unified Development Ordinance lets any lawfully permitted sign swap…

Boulder treats a political sign as a noncommercial sign exempt from standard area and setback limits, but caps it at…

Denver treats political signs as noncommercial signs: no permit needed on residential lots, but they're capped at 15…

Election, ideological, and real estate signs are the only sign types Greeley allows on vacant lots without a primary…

Weld County's sign code is content-neutral, so political yard signs follow the same limits as other signs. Each lot may…

Garage-sale signs fall under Adams County's content-neutral temporary sign rule: up to 32 sq ft, on private property…

Boulder County's Land Use Code (Article 13) does not exempt garage-sale signs generally; temporary signs must meet the…

Garage-sale signs may not be placed in the public right-of-way at any time in Castle Rock. Right-of-way signs…

Garage sale signs in Centennial are regulated as Yard Signs: no permit or cap on quantity, but each sign is capped at 6…

Colorado Springs treats a garage-sale sign as a "Short Term Sign" under Table 7.4.13-E: no permit needed, but it must…

Denver limits yard and garage sales to 72 hours, one per half-year, and requires all signs and other external evidence…

Garage sale signs are temporary signs in unincorporated Douglas County: no permit is needed, but they must be on…

Jeffco has no separate garage-sale sign category; they fall under content-neutral "Temporary Ground Signs." Up to six…

Small temporary signs like garage-sale signs are generally exempt from a permit under Section 10.5 of the Larimer…

Temporary signs in El Paso County's residential zoning districts, including yard and garage sale signs, need no permit…

Mesa County treats a garage-sale sign as an exempt temporary sign: no permit needed if it isn't illuminated or…

Westminster names garage sale signs as a no-permit incidental sign, but limits how long a temporary freestanding sign…

Garage-sale signs in unincorporated Weld County fall under the general small-sign allowance: up to five signs of up to…

Longmont's sign code flatly prohibits inflatable signs -- balloons, inflatable figures, and similar fluttering or…

Colorado Springs treats inflatable displays as temporary signage, not decoration. Under City Code § 7.4.1307.E.3, a…

Aurora caps any inflatable, balloon, or similar device over 20 inches to 72 straight hours and once per year, no permit…

Denver exempts holiday decorations from outdoor advertising device permits, but only if displayed no more than 60…

Balloons and inflatable displays with text or graphics under 33 square feet count as temporary signs and need a city…

Arapahoe County's Land Development Code bans exposed 'light bulb strings and exposed tubing', festoons, strings of…

Fountain's Fire Code caps decorative holiday lighting at 45 days of installation, extending to 90 days for apartment…

Lakewood exempts decorative holiday light displays from a sign permit, but caps how long they can stay up: 60…

Littleton exempts holiday lighting from its outdoor lighting standards only during November, December and January. City…

Loveland does not require a sign permit for seasonal decorations, so holiday lights and displays can go up without City…

Arvada exempts holiday decorations from two of its toughest sign rules: the citywide ban on animated lighting and the…

Centennial exempts holiday lighting from its exterior lighting standards as long as it stays up no more than 90 nights…

El Paso County exempts holiday decorative lighting entirely from its outdoor lighting standards, allowing any type…

Mesa County exempts temporary holiday decorations and displays from its sign permit requirements, letting property…

Boulder's sign code bans off-premises billboards outright: Section 9-9-21(b)(3)(H) prohibits any commercial sign that…

Colorado Springs' sign code has no digital-billboard track: Section 7.4.1308.C bans any sign whose digital message…

Denver's zoning code bars new LED message surfaces on outdoor advertising billboards, grandfathering only devices with…

Fort Collins bans billboards outright, digital or otherwise, along with all permanent off-premises signs, under Section…

Littleton prohibits billboards outright citywide, and in the Downtown Main Street, Transition, Mixed-Use and…

Manitou Springs outlaws digital, animated and flashing signs citywide under its Land Use and Development Code. Any…

Westminster bans billboards outright, so a new off-premise digital billboard cannot be permitted anywhere in the city…

Billboards are banned outright in every zoning district of unincorporated Arapahoe County, and that ban extends to…

Arvada has no separate billboard category: digital displays are regulated as electronic message centers under LDC…

Douglas County allows electronic message signs only in place of a freestanding sign, one per parcel, capped at 50…

New electronic message display billboards in unincorporated El Paso County need a Board of County…

Greeley restricts digital "EMD" signs to commercial, industrial, PUD and institutional-use sites, capping them at 50%…

Longmont allows digital/electronic message signs only as part of a freestanding monument sign in specific mixed-use and…

Pueblo caps electronic message signs at 10,000 NITs by day and 5,000 by night, bans them within 100 feet of homes, and…

Weld County only allows electronic message displays, its term for digital billboards, in Commercial and Industrial…

Aurora caps electronic message boards at 50% of a monument sign face, bans scrolling or flashing, and requires…

Centennial caps digital billboard brightness at 0.3 foot-candles above ambient light, measured with a calibrated meter…

Fountain has no separate digital-billboard category; the operative rule is the electronic message center (EMC) standard…

Lakewood's zoning code allows on-site electronic message signs on larger lots but caps copy changes to once every 8…

Loveland, Colorado caps electronic message center (EMC) displays at 50% of a sign's face, or 60% within the I-25…

Mesa County caps digital and electronic sign brightness at 0.3 footcandles over ambient light, bans interactive…

Arvada caps how much of a storefront window can be covered with signs under Table 6-1-5-1B: up to 25 percent of any…

In Aurora, Colorado, window signs are capped at 50% coverage per window pane citywide, dropping to 25% in the MU-OA-MS…

Boulder exempts small window signs from a sign permit, but only within limits: Section 9-9-21(c)(1)(L) allows a…

Centennial caps window signage by requiring 50% to 80% window transparency, depending on zone district, instead of a…

Window signs in Colorado Springs can't cover more than 25% of the window area they're displayed in, under Table…

Temporary window signs in Denver can't exceed 60 percent of ground-level window area or 50 percent of the zone lot's…

Douglas County caps window signs at six square feet each and ties the number allowed per business to the length of the…

A Fort Collins window sign under six square feet needs no sign permit as long as it covers no more than 25 percent of…

Fountain limits how much of a storefront window a sign can cover. Fountain Municipal Code § 17.12.060(K) caps any sign…

Window signs are allowed in Greeley but can cover no more than 25 percent of any individual window pane's glass surface…

Window signs in Lakewood, Colorado are exempt from the sign permit process but still capped at 25 percent of the…

Loveland, Colorado caps window signage under UDC Table 18.04.08.10.B: up to 25% of an architecturally distinct window…

Window and door signs in Manitou Springs cannot cover more than 25% of the glass area on any street-facing façade, and…

In Pueblo's Commercial Charter Neighborhood district, window signs can cover only 20% of the window they're mounted on…

In unincorporated Arapahoe County, signs placed in or on a window or the glass part of a door don't need a sign permit…

Temporary window signs covering less than 50 percent of the window surface don't need a sign permit in unincorporated…

Littleton exempts small display window signs under four square feet from a sign permit citywide, while downtown window…

Longmont exempts window signs from a sign permit, but caps them at 25% of a window opening, or 50% of any single panel…

Westminster lets any property post window signs without a permit, but caps the total sign area at 30 percent of the…

Mesa County excludes window signs incorporated with a window display from a property's total sign allowance, so…

Off-premises signs and billboards in Aurora, Colorado may not be visible from any freeway or interstate highway under…

Denver prohibits erecting or remodeling any billboard within 660 feet of a freeway right-of-way if its face is visible…

Douglas County bans billboards outright, county-wide, with no exceptions for freeway frontage. Any freestanding sign…

In unincorporated Arapahoe County, a freestanding sign facing an Arterial/Freeway frontage is capped at one sign per…

In Pueblo, a sign in a commercial or industrial zone next to the state highway system needs a separate CDOT sign…