Campaign Signs: What are the Rules?:
Loudoun County’s zoning ordinance provisions require anyone interested in displaying signs on the roadways within the county to obtain a zoning permit. Once the permit is obtained, signs not exceeding four-square-feet may be placed on private property (any parcel of record) upon consent of the property owner. Large billboard type signs are not permitted in accordance with current zoning ordinance provisions. For additional information regarding the sign permit process, please contact Marsha Keim, Zoning Permit Division, 703-777-0648.
No signs are permitted in a Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) right-of-way. Under an agreement with VDOT, Loudoun County removes all signs that have been placed within VDOT rights-of-way. For additional information regarding the sign collection program, please contact Roger Carroll, Zoning Enforcement, 703-737-8818.
Sign regulations may differ within Loudoun County’s incorporated towns and the appropriate town offices should be contacted regarding placement of campaign and other temporary signs within towns.
It may be worth mentioning that *only* VDOT, its designated representatives, or the owners of the signs may remove a sign from the right-of-way. Citizens can and have been charged with theft for removing signs. This Marc Fisher column from 2009 talks about one such case, and the same guy was arrested again just this last June for the same thing.
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