Beaverton, OR Outdoor Lighting: Billboard Lighting (2026)
Key Facts
- Billboards
- Banned citywide
- Billboard-specific lighting rule
- None: structure itself is banned
- In effect since
- Ordinance 4708 (2017)
- Citation
- Development Code § 60.40.25.2
Summary
Beaverton prohibits billboards outright citywide under its Development Code, so there's no separate billboard-lighting standard to meet: the structure itself can't be erected anywhere in the city, lit or unlit.
60.40.25. Signs Expressly Prohibited.
The following signs are prohibited by this ordinance within City limits.
1. Bench Sign.
2. Billboard.
3. Feather Sign.
4. Flashing Sign.
5. Obstructing Sign.
6. Portable Sign except where allowed as a temporary sign in Section 60.40.45. of this Code.
7. Portable Electronic Message Center Sign.
8. Roof Sign except on single story buildings where a sloped roof is a predominant architectural feature of the building
and the Planning Director determines that signs placed on wall(s) of the same building cannot be seen from the nearest abutting street. In these cases, the top of the sign shall not be placed higher than one foot below the roof parapet wall.
9. Rotating or Revolving Sign.
10. Trailer Sign including any sign attached to or placed on a trailer that is parked on public or private property.
11. Video Sign.
12. Other Prohibitions. In addition to 1 through 11 above, the following are prohibited:
A. Signs in vision clearance areas as established in Chapter 2 of the City Engineering and Design Manual. [ORD
4697; December 2016]
B. Pennants, streamers, festoon lights and other similar devices with parts that are moved by the wind.
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Full Breakdown
Inside the City of Beaverton, Washington County, Oregon, the Development Code's sign chapter names 'Billboard' as one of the signs expressly prohibited within city limits, alongside bench signs, flashing signs and roof signs. Because freestanding billboards can't be built at all, there's no city standard governing billboard illumination specifically: the closest illumination rule in the code, the 0.3-foot-candle brightness cap for Electronic Message Centers under § 60.40.50, applies only to permitted on-site signage, not standalone billboards. The ban has stood since Ordinance 4708 (June 2017) and remains current through Ordinance 4879 (April 2026).
Violations & Fines
Erecting a billboard anywhere in Beaverton is a Development Code violation, a Class 1 City infraction under § 10.70.6, and the structure may be confiscated as a public nuisance under § 60.40.55.
Frequently Asked Questions
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