Miami-Dade committee approves amendment to allow 12-foot poster-board billboard replacements within commission districts

The Infrastructure Innovation and Technology Committee on a 3-2 vote amended and approved a county ordinance to permit one-for-one replacement of legally nonconforming billboards with 12-by-24-foot poster boards and to change where replacements may be sited.

The change updates sections of the Miami-Dade County Code (33-84 and 33-107) related to Class C sign structures and raises the allowable poster-board height from 10 feet to 12 feet, which proponents said aligns the code with industry standards. The committee also approved amendments requiring replacement poster boards to be located within the same county commission district as the board removed, a 60-day deadline to tear down the removed board after the replacement receives a permit, and a requirement that any replacement proposed outside the original commission district come back to the Board of County Commissioners for public hearing.

The ordinance before the committee was described as a corrective measure to an earlier 2022 ordinance (Ordinance 2021-52, adopted…