Supplemental Signs (SGS) – Virginia IDSP

Supplemental Guide Signs (SGS)

About SGS Signs

Supplemental Guide Signs (SGS) direct motorists to specific cultural, recreational, historical, governmental, educational, military and other sites of similar interest on limited access, primary, or secondary roadways.

Customers pay an annual fee to assist in the administration of the IDSP and are also responsible for all costs associated with the fabrication, installation and maintenance of their signage.

A facility requesting a SGS will pay a one-time application fee per requested SGS and pay for all costs associated with fabrication, installation, responsive maintenance, replacement, and removal of the sign structures and panels. An annual fee is also charged to participating commercial facilities based upon the size of the sign, with a higher rate per square foot charged for signs more than 12 square feet in area.
Non-profit organizations and federal, state, & local governments are exempt from annual fees. A maintenance fee of $100 may be charged to customers for maintenance.

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General Criteria

Participation Criteria adopted by the Commonwealth Transportation board. Revised by VDOT November 9th, 2018.

Supplemental Guide Signs shall be limited to two (2) structures per interchange or intersection per direction with no more than two (2) destinations per sign structure except as noted in General Criteria #2. When there is excessive demand over available space for new supplemental guide signing, VDOT, in consultation with the effected jurisdiction, shall determine which facilities will be listed on the signs.

All Supplemental Guide Signs in place as of September 15, 2004 will be “grandfathered” into the Program and may be repaired or replaced as necessary, except if the facility closes, relocates, or fails to comply with the criteria under which it originally qualified, the signs will be removed.

To qualify for Supplemental Guide Signing, a facility shall:

Be open to the general public, on a continuous basis, either year-round or during the normal operating season for the type of facility. Closings for the observance of official state holidays are allowed.
Comply with all applicable laws concerning the provision of public accommodations without regard to age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, or accessibility by the physically handicapped.
Agree to abide by all rules, regulations, policies, procedures and criteria associated with the program.
Agree that in any cases of dispute or other disagreement with the rules, regulations, policies, procedures and criteria or applications of the program, the decision of the State Traffic Engineer shall be final and binding.
All facilities shall be located within fifteen (15) miles of the initial Supplemental Guide Sign.

Integration of Winery Signing Program – For Additional criteria and considerations regarding wineries please click here.

Supplemental Guide Signs (SGS)

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General Criteria

ACCEPTABLE SITES – ELIGIBLE FACILITIES

EXCLUDED SITES – NON-ELIGIBLE FACILITIES