West Palm Beach, FL Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

' That cross-referenced exception is narrow: it applies only to billboards that were already legally standing before March 9, 1998, and allows their owners to relocate them adjacent to Interstate 95 by March 23, 2007, subject to a Class A special use permit, a monopole construction requirement, a 350-foot maximum distance from the I-95 main line, a 1,500-foot minimum separation between relocated boards, a 700-square-foot face cap, and a 65-foot height limit above the crown of I-95. Roof-mounted billboards are barred outright even under that exception.

Nothing in the exception authorizes new construction, and it says nothing about electronic or digital displays, so a new digital billboard built outside that narrow legacy-relocation window is prohibited the same as a static one. The city underscored how firm this ban is with a dedicated severability clause at Sec. ' Off-premises electronic message signs are also absent from the list of signs permitted in commercial and industrial districts under Sec. 94-408; the only electronic or changeable-copy signage the code affirmatively allows is on-premises: bulletin boards for houses of worship (Sec.

94-407(4)) and changeable copy event signs for theaters and auditoriums (Sec. 94-407(14)-(15)), both of which are accessory to the specific use on the same lot, not freestanding advertising structures.