Miramar, FL Sign Regulations: Freeway-Facing Signs (2026)
Key Facts
- Billboards
- Banned on all roadways except two
- Permitted corridors
- Florida Turnpike and Interstate 75
- Location test
- Parcel must be contiguous to expressway
- Allowed zoning
- B2, B3, OP, EC, MU, PID, PUD, U
- Orientation
- Must face expressway or 6+ lane connector
- Non-freeway billboards
- No eligibility for approval
Summary
Miramar bans billboards and off-premises signage on every roadway in the city except two corridors: the Florida Turnpike and Interstate 75. LDC § 1014 defines those as the only 'major expressways' where a billboard, always in digital form, may be located, and even there the sign must sit on a parcel contiguous to the expressway itself.
"Major expressways" means Interstate-75 or the Florida Turnpike... To minimize sign clutter and to protect public aesthetics, billboards and off-premises signage is being prohibited along all roadways in the city except along the major expressways Florida Turnpike and Interstate 75 as permitted in this section 1014... All digital billboards must be located on property contiguous to city's major expressways; for the purposes of this section, contiguous is defined as touching along a boundary or separated only by a canal or access road dedicated by the property owner or their predecessors in title.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 104 | Land Development Code: Supplement 46).
Full Breakdown
1 defines 'major expressways' to mean 'Interstate-75 or the Florida Turnpike' and nothing else, so a billboard proposed along any other city arterial does not qualify no matter how it is designed. 3 tightens the location test further: a digital billboard must sit on property contiguous to the city's major expressways, where contiguous means the property touches the expressway boundary directly or is separated from it only by a canal or an access road dedicated by the property owner or a predecessor in title. The billboard must also face traffic on the expressway itself, or on a connecting road of at least six lanes, and can only be built in the B2, B3, OP, EC, MU, PID, PUD (commercial/industrial) or U zoning districts.
The findings behind the section explain the city adopted the freeway-only approach to protect the city's 'established suburban character,' to avoid 'visual clutter' along ordinary roadway corridors, and to concentrate the limited amount of off-premises advertising the city permits along the two expressways that already carry heavy through-traffic rather than spreading it across residential and neighborhood commercial streets.
Violations & Fines
A billboard erected off a major expressway parcel, or on a non-contiguous property, does not meet LDC § 1014's threshold eligibility test and cannot receive site plan approval from the Community Development Department. An unpermitted billboard is enforced as a sign code violation under § 1012.3's $25/$50/$100/$500 escalating notice schedule, with the city authorized to remove it and bill the property owner after the fourth notice.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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