Tallahassee, FL Sign Regulations: Freeway-Facing Signs (2026)

Section 7-64(a) allows off-site advertising signs only in the CP Commercial Parkway, C-2 General Commercial, M-1 Light Industrial, and IC Interchange Commercial districts, plus AC parcels fronting Capital Circle or Thomasville Road north of Interstate 10. Under § 7-64(c), each sign face must run between 72 and 380 square feet, stand no taller than 40 feet measured from the roadway edge, sit back at least 15 feet from the nearest right-of-way line (35 feet at an intersection), and space at least 2,000 feet from the next standard billboard on the same side of the street (4,000 feet for tri-vision or variable message signs).

Section 7-64(b) caps the citywide total at the inventory existing on December 14, 2005; a new sign permit issues only after an existing off-site sign and its structure are confirmed removed by a growth management department site inspection, and the resulting certificate can be held, redeemed, or sold to a third party. Section 7-64(e) layers on further siting bans: no billboard within 300 feet of a canopy road centerline, within 100 feet of a church, school, cemetery, park, playground, or railroad intersection, within 100 feet of residentially zoned property, or visible from named gateway corridors such as South Monroe Street, Apalachee Parkway, Thomasville Road, Blair Stone Road, Gaines Street, and FAMU Way. Applicants must also show proof of an FDOT permit application before the city will issue its own.