Puyallup, WA Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

020(2)(g) bans billboards in every zone citywide; there is no way to obtain a billboard permit inside city limits. 065(3) sets nine performance standards for it. Messages cannot change more than once every two seconds, and both full-color and monochrome units are barred from showing video or animation, defined to include displays that appear to move toward or away from the viewer, bounce, rotate, expand, or portray explosions or flashing lights. 3 foot-candles above ambient light, with a hard ceiling of 5,000 nits by day and 500 nits at night, verified by manufacturer certification filed with the sign permit application.

m. Only one EMS is allowed per site or development complex; a second is permitted only if it faces a separate primary arterial and sits at least 500 feet from the first sign and 250 feet from any EMS on another property. Freestanding EMS units must be built as monument signs, except in the public facilities zone where a pole-mounted EMS is allowed. 010(9), but every larger or full-color unit needs a sign permit from the development services department. None of this reaches the Puyallup Tribe of Indians' reservation or trust land, which sits outside city code authority entirely.