Kent County, DE Sign Regulations: Freeway-Facing Signs (2026)

C, and its geography is deliberately narrow: billboards are permitted only on divided highways, the multi-lane, median-separated roads that carry the county's through traffic and function like a local freeway network. One off-premises billboard is allowed per parcel in addition to the one double-faced on-premises business sign the district otherwise permits, and the two categories are counted separately. Every billboard must sit at least 25 feet back from the street right-of-way, cannot exceed 288 square feet of sign area, and is limited to a single double-faced structure with no more than one advertisement per face, so a parcel cannot stack multiple billboard faces to multiply its advertising area.

Height is capped at 35 feet, and spacing is controlled county-wide within the same divided-highway corridor: no billboard can be located within a 1,200-foot radius of another billboard, a rule designed to prevent visual clutter along the corridor's highest-traffic stretches. F for lower-profile advertising, capped at 32 square feet and 6 feet in height with a 500-foot spacing radius, but that category is distinct from the billboard rule and does not carry the divided-highway restriction the same way.