Monroe Township (Gloucester County), NJ Sign Regulations: Freeway-Facing Signs (2026)

The code regulates road-facing billboards by named corridor rather than by freeway designation, and the billboard and sign sections never use the word freeway. Under § 175-91.2(C)(1), no new billboard can be erected in the Township except in billboard corridors in designated areas of special control. Subsection F(1)(b) names the corridors: the Black Horse Pike from Berlin-Cross Keys Road to Sicklerville Road, and Berlin Cross Keys Road from Falcon Way Boulevard to the Black Horse Pike. The Township Council creates areas of special control by ordinance after notice and hearing.

Spacing is measured parallel to the roadway between perpendiculars extended from the billboard locations. In a corridor, no billboard can go within 1,000 feet of an existing billboard on either side of the road right-of-way. Along Berlin Cross Keys Road from Falcon Way Boulevard to the Black Horse Pike the figure is 750 feet. No new billboard can be within 200 feet of the intersection of two public roadways, and every billboard structure must sit at least 10 feet from any property line or right-of-way without posing a visibility or other hazard to vehicular traffic.

Size limits are 35 feet in height, measured from grade at the edge of the adjacent right-of-way, and 400 square feet in area, with one billboard per structure except for exempted signs. Roof billboards, wall billboards, and any sign that obstructs the sight distance triangle or extends into the public right-of-way are prohibited under D.

Section 175-135(E)(1) backs this up for the sign chapter: no outdoor off-site commercial advertising sign is permitted, except existing lawful signs in existence as of January 14, 1981 in Regional Growth Zoning Districts, and in the RD-C and RD-I Zones when located on a United States highway within 1,000 feet of a Pinelands Regional Growth Area or Pinelands Town. An application is reviewed as minor site plan review, unless filed with a major site plan.