# Sign Regulations in Selbyville Town, Delaware

Sign permit rules, size and height limits, setbacks, and ordinance citations for Selbyville Town, Delaware, compiled by PermitPal from the jurisdiction's published municipal code.

- **Jurisdiction:** Selbyville Town, Delaware (DE)
- **Canonical page:** https://permitpal.io/sign-regulations/delaware/selbyville-town
- **Data last verified:** 2025-04-28
- **Source:** [ecode360 municipal code](https://ecode360.com/6176183#6176183)

## At a glance

Selbyville Town, Delaware regulates 30 sign types across 4 zoning districts. Temporary Development Signs in the General Regulations For All Zones zoning district are capped at 15 ft tall and 60 sq ft, with a As required by district setback (Sec. §200-104[I], §200-105G(5)(d)). Most commercial signs in Selbyville Town require a permit.

## Sign rules by zoning district (4 zones)

| Zoning District | Sign Types Regulated | Max Height | Max Area | Permit Required |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| General Regulations For All Zones | 25 | 15 ft | 200 sq ft | — |
| R-1 District, R-2 District, Multifamily Residential District, Mobile Home Residential District | 1 | — | — | — |
| Duplex Residential District | 2 | — | 30 sq ft | — |
| HR District | 4 | — | 200 sq ft (per sign) | — |

## Zone-by-zone sign requirements (sample of 3 of 4 zones)

### General Regulations For All Zones

| Sign Type | Max Height | Max Area | Max Width | Setback | Signs Allowed | Location | Permit Required | Ordinance Citation |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Name and Address Sign | — | 2 sq ft | — | — | 1 per principal building/use | On premises | — | §200-104[E] |
| Permanent Subdivision Sign | — | 20 sq ft | — | — | 1 per dedicated street entrance | Private property at dedicated street entrance | — | §200-104[G] |
| Temporary Real Estate Sign | — | 8 sq ft | — | 15 ft min from street line | 1 per street frontage | On premises for sale/rent/lease | — | §200-104[H], §200-105B(3), §200-105G(5)(c) |
| Temporary Development Sign | 15 ft | 60 sq ft | — | As required by district | 1 per dedicated street entrance | On land under development | — | §200-104[I], §200-105G(5)(d) |
| Temporary Construction Sign | 15 ft | 30 sq ft | — | 25 ft min from street line | 1 per street frontage | On premises during active construction | — | §200-104[J], §200-105B(4), §200-105G(5)(b) |
| Nonilluminated Awning/Canopy/Umbrella Sign | Letters not exceeding 1 ft | 10 sq ft | — | — | — | On awning, canopy, curtain, umbrella | — | §200-105B(6) |
| Projecting Sign (Horizontal) | Cannot extend more than 6 ft above wall at point of attachment | 15 sq ft per side | — | Not within required building setback line by more than 10 ft | — | On building; may not project more than 10 ft into/beyond setback | — | Projecting Sign (E), §200-105A |
| Projecting Sign (Vertical or General) | Cannot extend more than 6 ft above wall at point of attachment | 30 sq ft per side | — | Not within required building setback line by more than 10 ft | — | On building; may not project more than 10 ft into/beyond setback | — | Projecting Sign (F and G), §200-105A |

### Duplex Residential District

| Sign Type | Max Height | Max Area | Max Width | Setback | Signs Allowed | Location | Permit Required | Ordinance Citation |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ALL SIGN TYPES permitted in General Regulations For All Zones | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | §200-56A, §200-56B |
| Freestanding Sign or Wall Sign | — | 30 sq ft | — | — | 1 per permitted use | For each permitted use on the same premises | — | §200-56C |

### HR District

| Sign Type | Max Height | Max Area | Max Width | Setback | Signs Allowed | Location | Permit Required | Ordinance Citation |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ALL SIGN TYPES permitted in General Regulations For All Zones | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | §200-72A, §200-72B |
| Identification Sign or Bulletin Board | — | 30 sq ft (total for both if both used) | — | — | 1 per building | For each building devoted to church, school, hospital, nursing home, country club, golf course or similar use | — | §200-80C |
| Home Occupation Identification Sign | — | 4 sq ft | — | — | 1 per home occupation | On premises | — | §200-80D |
| Business Sign (Marquee, Projecting, Roof or Ground) | — | 200 sq ft (per sign) | — | See additional requirements | — | Marquee, projecting, roof, and/or ground locations | — | §200-80E |

## Prohibited signs in Selbyville Town

- Flashing signs, except for time and temperature indicators, except as may be otherwise provided.
- Animated signs.
- Signs which produce noise or sounds, or emit visible smoke, vapor, particles or odor.
- Banners, pennants, streamers, blimps, balloons and all other fluttering, spinning or similar type signs and advertising devices, except for national flags and flags of political subdivisions of the United States, and except for flags of bona fide civic, charitable, fraternal and welfare organizations.
- Signs with intermittent lights resembling or seeming to resemble the flashing lights customarily associated with danger or such as are customarily used by police, fire or ambulance vehicles or for navigational purposes.
- Signs located and so illuminated as to provide a background of colored lights blending with traffic signal lights to the extent of confusing a motorist when viewed from normal approaching position of a vehicle at a distance of 225 to 300 feet.
- Signs in any location which obstruct vision of motorists or traffic control signals.
- Signs located within 35 feet of any right-of-way line of an intersection of streets.
- Signs attached to trees or utility poles.
- Signs attached to any vehicle, parked primarily for display purposes.
- Portable signs which do not meet the requirements and/or regulations of ground signs.

## Signs exempt from permit in Selbyville Town

- Signs erected by any governmental agency for the purposes of direction, safety or convenience of the general public.
- "Warning" signs and "No Trespassing" signs, not exceeding two square feet in area.
- Instructional signs, nonilluminated.
- Signs in connection with doorbells or mailboxes, not exceeding 12 square inches in area.
- Name and address signs not exceeding more than one for each principal building or use on a premises and not exceeding two square feet in area.
- Signs which are attached or which are an integral part of gasoline pump or other dispensing or servicing devices, providing that such signs do not extend beyond the area of the pump, dispensing or servicing device to which they are attached.
- Permanent subdivision signs not exceeding 20 square feet in area maintained on private property not to exceed one such sign for each dedicated street entrance.
- Temporary real estate sign indicating sale, rental or lease of the premises on which it is located, with a maximum area of eight square feet in area, and having a minimum setback of 15 feet from the street line and which are nonilluminated or indirectly illuminated and not more than one sign for each street frontage on which the premises abuts.
- Temporary development sign advertising sale or rental of structures under construction upon the land under development, having a maximum area of 60 square feet and a maximum height of 15 feet, and having a minimum setback from the street line as required by the setback restrictions for the zoning district in which the sign is located, with such sign being nonilluminated or indirectly illuminated, and not more than one such sign for each dedicated street entrance.
- Temporary construction sign identifying those engaged in construction, having a maximum area of 30 square feet and a minimum setback from any street line of 25 feet with a maximum height of not more than 15 feet, such sign to be nonilluminated or indirectly illuminated, with not more than one sign for each street frontage upon which the premises abuts, and permitted only while construction is actually in progress.
- Signs erected or required to be erected by any governmental agency (no permit required).
- Changing of the copy on a bulletin board, poster board, display encasement or marquee (no permit required).
- Temporary nonilluminated signs, not more than eight square feet in area, advertising real estate for sale or lease or announcing contemplated improvements of real estate, and located on the premises which is to be sold, leased or improved, with not more than one such sign for each street frontage (no permit required).
- Temporary nonilluminated signs not more than 10 square feet in area, erected in connection with new construction work and displayed on the premises during such time as the actual construction work is in progress with not more than one such sign for each such street frontage of the property (no permit required).
- Instructional nonilluminated signs (no permit required).
- Nonilluminated signs, not exceeding 10 square feet in area with letters not exceeding one foot in height, painted, stamped, perforated or stitched on the surface area of an awning, canopy, roller curtain or umbrella (no permit required).
- Sign on a truck, bus or other vehicle, while in use in the normal course of business, but not parked primarily for display purposes of a vehicle to which such signs are attached (no permit required).
- Professional name plates erected flat on walls of buildings and not exceeding 12 square inches of display surface area (no permit required).
- Temporary construction sign (no permit required).
- Temporary real estate sign (no permit required).
- Temporary development sign (no permit required).
- Memorial signs or tablets, names of buildings and date or erection when cut into any masonry surface or when constructed of bronze or other noncombustible material (no permit required).
- Traffic or other municipal signs, legal notices, railroad crossing signs, danger and such temporary, emergency or nonadvertising sign (no permit required).
- Posting of bills on signs, repainting of signs or the changing of letters or numbers on signs designed for arrangeable lettering and numbering which were legally erected and maintained for such purposes (no permit required).
- Election campaign signs (no permit required).
- Time and temperature displays without advertising matter providing all clearances prescribed herein for signs similarly located or maintained (no permit required).
- Banners used in conjunction with public and private events as follows: election campaigns (no permit required); public event banners removed within 72 hours following the event to which the banner applies (no permit required); banners placed on private property for advertising a special sales event (no permit required; banners bearing advertising matter are considered wall or freestanding signs).
- All signs located within a building that are not visible to the public outside said building (no permit required).
- Signs painted on, or affixed to, glass surfaces of windows or doors and pertaining to the lawful business conducted therein (no permit required).
- Directional, identification and informational signs, provided that such signs are limited to wall and freestanding signs with maximum size as permitted in the zoning district applicable (no permit required).

## Sign plan & submission notes

- No sign unless excepted shall be erected, constructed, posted, painted, altered, maintained or relocated, except as provided in this article, until a permit has been issued by the Building Inspector.
- Before any permit is issued an application shall be made to the Building Inspector together with three sets of drawings and/or specifications as may be necessary to fully advise and acquaint the Building Inspector with the location, construction, materials, manner of illuminated, and/or securing or fastening, and the number of signs applied for, the wording of the sign or advertisement to be carried on the sign.
- No explicit mention of a master sign plan, sign plan requirement, or required variance meeting for general signs across all zones is found in the provided text. All signs (unless excepted) require a permit and submission of drawings/specifications.

## Full detail

This page publishes an overview of every zoning district plus a sample of 3 districts in full. Complete zone-by-zone requirements for all 4 zoning districts in Selbyville Town — every sign type, every field — are available with a free PermitPal account: https://app.permitpal.io/?address=Selbyville+Town+DE&override=true&utm_source=landing&utm_medium=city-page&utm_campaign=city-selbyville-town

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