Plantation, FL Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

Chapter 22, Division 4 of the Plantation Code of Ordinances governs prohibited permanent signs. Sec. 22-50(a)(1) flatly bars any "off premises permanent sign" citywide, which forecloses billboards as a category since a billboard by definition advertises a business or product not located on the sign's own parcel. Sec. " A digital billboard, whose LED face cycles through multiple advertising messages, functions as exactly the kind of blinking or flasher-type display this subsection targets, and its brightness at night is the same dazzle hazard the code singles out.

Sec. 22-50(a)(9) also bans pole signs outright (except MUTCD traffic signs), removing the tall freestanding structure format most billboards use. The only exceptions carved out in Sec. 22-50(b) are for flags and traffic control devices; none apply to advertising displays. Because these prohibitions sit in Division 4, which applies to every zoning district in the city with no commercial-corridor carve-out, a landowner along State Road 7, Broward Boulevard or University Drive cannot obtain a permit for a digital billboard regardless of parcel size or road frontage.

Enforcement runs through the city's building and code enforcement processes: an unpermitted or prohibited sign is subject to removal, and violations of the sign chapter are prosecutable as code enforcement cases under Chapter 6 of the City Code, which can carry escalating fines and liens against the property until the sign is taken down.