Pierce County, WA Sign Regulations: Freeway-Facing Signs (2026)

C states that, except as permitted under the section, no person shall erect a billboard visible from the main traveled way of State Route 512, State Route 16, State Route 302 and Key Peninsula Highway, State Route 410, State Route 167, Canyon Road, State Route 162, State Route 7 (Pacific Avenue), State Route 704, or State Route 161 in unincorporated Pierce County. 55 PCC: billboard faces are capped at 300 square feet countywide (672 square feet in the Employment Center zone), with cut-outs limited to 20 percent of that area under subsection D; billboards must be spaced at least 1,000 feet apart along the traveled way regardless of jurisdictional boundaries under subsection F; and setbacks are at least 15 feet from a street property line and 2 feet from a side property line under subsection G.

Billboards already standing on a listed highway when the restriction applies are treated as nonconforming under subsection I: they cannot be changed, relocated, expanded, or altered in a way that increases the nonconformity, except that a billboard displaced by county right-of-way acquisition may be relocated on the same parcel at the same distance from the new right-of-way. 55 PCC specifically for billboard review.