Summary of Billboard Regulations
Kansas City, MO
Allows 950 sq ft billboards in most commercial and industrial districts except C-1; not allowed in most planned districts.
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Austin, TX
Billboards not permitted.
Charlotte, NC
Allows 380 sq ft billboards within 150 ft of highway in heavy industrial districts.
Most non-conforming signs must be removed within 8 years.
Cincinnati, OH
Allows 675 sq ft billboards in certain commercial and industrial areas, but total face area and number of faces of all outdoor advertising within the city may not be increased. Applicant must take down a sign to get a permit to erect a new one.
Columbus, OH
Allows 672 sq ft billboards in some commercial and industrial areas, but if greater than 400 ft, must be on a street wider than 80 ft and 1320 ft separation between billboards.
Dallas, TX
Freestanding billboards not permitted. Billboard wall signs permitted by express authorization in special provision sign districts.
Denver, CO
Allows 672 sq ft billboards in 4 heavy commercial and industrial districts, but not on interstate highways, and not in 15 specifically described areas. Most non-conforming signs must be removed 5 years from ordinance adoption.
Des Moines, IA
Freestanding billboards not allowed; one central business district allows 300sq ft off-premises wall signs.
Indianapolis, IN
Allows 378 sq ft billboards in 2 medium commercial districts; 672 sq ft billboards in heavy commercial and all industrial districts, except no billboards allowed within 660 ft of interstate within I-465 loop (includes most of city)
Milwaukee, WI
300 sq ft billboards allowed in medium commercial districts. 672 sq ft billboards allowed in 2 of the industrial districts. 2 industrial districts allow only “monument” billboards.
Minneapolis, MN
Billboards only allowed in “billboard districts” generally along highways. In two “billboard opportunity districts”, two nonconforming signs must be removed to erect one new sign.
Oklahoma City, OK
Allows 672 sq ft billboards in medium commercial and medium industrial districts.
Nashville, TN
Allows 675 sq ft billboards along highways in certain medium commercial areas. Also allows them in industrial areas along roads at least four lanes wide.
St. Louis, MO
Allows only billboards permitted by MoDot on highways, allows one sign for Kiel Arena, which contains off-site advertising.
Suburbs of Kansas City, MO
Blue Springs, MO
Billboards allowed only along I-70, and only with a conditional use permit. All billboards must be removed by December 4, 2009.
Gladstone, MO
600 sq ft billboards allowed along interstate or primary highways if permitted by MoDot.
Independence, MO
80 sq ft signs allowed in certain commercial districts on arterials or interstate highways; 750 sq ft signs allowed with special use permit.
Lee’s Summit, MO
Billboards allowed with a special use permit, but only within 660 ft of the right of way of US 50, I-470 and 350 hwy.
Lenexa, KS
Billboards prohibited.
Liberty, MO
Billboards prohibited.
Olathe, KS
Plan under consideration to halt further billboards and take down the existing ones.
Overland Park, KS
Billboards allowed by special use permit, along certain interstate highways, in industrial zones.
Raytown, MO
300 sq ft billboards allowed in Highway Corridor Commercial district with conditional use permit. 400 sq ft billboards allowed in Industrial district with conditional use permit.
Unified Government of Wyandotte County
300 sq ft signs allowed in M-2 (general industrial), 925 sq ft signs allowed in M-3 (heavy industrial) along freeways. Not allowed in commercial or light industrial. Prohibited in 14 specific areas.