Shreveport, LA Sign Regulations: Freeway-Facing Signs (2026)

B sets the location test for every new billboard built after the Code's effective date. A new static, non-electronic billboard is only permitted in the C-4, Light Industrial, and Heavy Industrial districts, or anywhere else that is zoned commercial or industrial and sits within 660 feet of a federal interstate or primary aid highway. Electronic billboards get one more eligible zoning category, C-2 and C-3, on top of the same 660-foot highway test. B then closes the door on every other district by name: R-A, R-E, all five R-1 subdistricts, R-UC, R-TH, R-2 through R-4, both manufactured-housing districts, C-1, C-UC, C-UV, the D-1 downtown districts, OR, NA, OS, and IC are all listed as districts where static and electronic billboards alike are prohibited outright.

The section also blocks a workaround: no property can be rezoned into one of the eligible districts for the sole purpose of putting up a billboard, and any parcel rezoned within the past 24 months must first get an approved site plan, an active building permit, and actual construction underway for some other use before it can apply for a billboard sign permit. 3, meaning a new billboard generally requires taking down an existing one first, sized at a one-for-one or two-for-one ratio depending on whether the removed sign is conforming or nonconforming. Height and size on top of the location test are set separately by Tables 9-5 and 9-6 of the same section.