Hialeah, FL Sign Regulations: Freeway-Facing Signs (2026)

Off-site billboards are banned citywide under Sec. 74-146(2), 'except as provided in section 74-151,' so Sec. 74-150's billboard replacement program is the only path to a legal digital or traditional billboard along Hialeah's expressway frontage, and it works strictly as a swap: an owner of an existing legal nonconforming billboard facing the Palmetto Expressway, State Road 112, or the east-west stretch of I-75 may relocate, repair, retrofit or replace it, but the relocation or replacement can never result in an increase in the number of billboards within the city.

A replacement sign is capped at 672 square feet per face and no more than two sign faces per monopole, with a maximum structure height of 65 feet measured from the crown of the road. Spacing rules keep billboards apart: no closer than 1,500 feet to another billboard on the same side of I-75, or 1,000 feet along the Palmetto Expressway or State Road 112, and no closer than 100 feet to a house of worship, school, park or recreation facility. The monopole itself must sit at least 15 feet from the right-of-way edge, 5 feet from the interior side property line, and 30 feet from any residential lot, expanding to a 300-foot setback where the sign face orients toward residentially zoned property.

00 neighborhood enhancement and park contribution for as long as the replacement sign stands. A related but distinct track, Sec. 74-151, lets the city approve two brand-new billboards (not replacements) on the same Palmetto Expressway and I-75 frontage, up to 672 square feet and three sign faces per structure, through a negotiated development agreement rather than the swap mechanism.