Medina, OH Sign Regulations: Freeway-Facing Signs (2026)

10, Prohibited Signs, states that all signs not expressly permitted in this Chapter, or exempt from regulation pursuant to this Chapter, shall be prohibited in the City, then lists specific categories that are banned even though the general clause would already reach them. Subsection (b) bans billboard signs by name, and subsection (c) extends the ban to all other off-premises signs, meaning any sign advertising a business, product or service not located on the same parcel as the sign. The only carve-out is for temporary signs promoting a civic or community affair of a public or semi-public nature that is not operated for private gain, such as a sign for a charity festival or a school event.

10 sits inside the general zoning sign chapter, the ban applies along every street and highway frontage in the City, including any lot fronting Interstate 71 or the state routes that cross Medina; the code draws no separate, looser standard for freeway-facing property. The prohibition list in the same section also reaches several related off-premises formats that would otherwise be used to route around the billboard ban: single-pole pole signs in subsection (d), animated and inflatable signs in subsection (g), and signs attached to trees, utility poles, streetlights or public benches in subsection (i).