Lewis County, WA Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

207 requires a Community Development Department permit for any sign erected, relocated, constructed, replaced, or altered unless it is specifically exempt, and subsection (3) lists categorical prohibitions rather than conditions a permit can cure. Subsection (3)(d) places digital billboards in that outright-ban category regardless of size, and limits nondigital billboards to 10 feet in height and 22 feet in width; larger than that and the sign is prohibited outright, not merely restricted. That sits alongside the county's other sign bans: no sign on county property or in a right-of-way without the controlling agency's consent (3)(a), no sign that creates a traffic hazard through size, movement, or illumination (3)(b), no flashing sign faster than five revolutions per minute or with wind-actuated elements (3)(c), and no abandoned or dilapidated sign left standing (3)(e).

By contrast, ordinary commercial businesses may erect one freestanding sign up to 64 square feet, or a shared 100-square-foot monument sign for a multi-business complex, standards nowhere close to billboard scale, confirming the county treats billboards as a separate, effectively prohibited category rather than a large version of ordinary commercial signage.