Taylor, TX Sign Regulations: Freeway-Facing Signs (2026)

2 of the Taylor Made Land Development Code, adopted by Ordinance 2024-41 and revised September 12, 2024, puts off-premises billboard advertising on the list of signs the code can never expressly authorize: item (5) bars any off-premises sign, including a billboard, that carries commercial advertising for the sale, rent, or lease of goods, real property, or services. The same list, item (17), bans freestanding pole signs citywide except along two named corridors, Highway 79 and North Main Street, the routes that carry the heaviest highway-facing traffic through Taylor.

Item (24) then addresses billboards that already existed when the LDC took effect: no permit for altering or relocating an off-premises sign may ever be issued, though ordinary repairs that do not change its size, shape, orientation, height, illumination, or location are allowed without one. If the City finds a billboard structure has deteriorated more than 60 percent of its replacement value, or it goes unrepaired 30 days after notice, the City can order the sign owner and the landowner to remove it, and replacing more than 60 percent of a billboard in a single calendar year automatically voids its legal nonconforming status.

No existing billboard may exceed 40 feet measured from ground level, and none may interfere with the sightlines of drivers or pedestrians at a street intersection or otherwise create a traffic hazard.