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Council enacts temporary moratorium on new large billboards while zoning rules are revised
Summary
The council approved a temporary parishwide prohibition on accepting new permit applications for off-premises billboards and outdoor advertising structures exceeding 100 square feet, exempting customary on-premise business signage, to allow zoning-code revisions.
The Plaquemines Parish Council voted on June 11 to impose a temporary ban on the acceptance of permit applications for certain billboards and off-premises outdoor advertising structures with sign faces exceeding 100 square feet. The moratorium was framed as a stopgap to allow the zoning board and legal staff to rewrite the parish zoning code on outdoor advertising.
Council members said billboards — including some placed near neighborhoods and outside the previously regulated Highway 23 corridor — had proliferated and that the existing zoning text allowed permits without sufficient local review. The moratorium exempts customary on-premise business signs that comply with existing zoning and permitting rules. Council members said already-permitted signs are not subject to the moratorium; the ordinance is aimed at preventing new large off-premise signs while the code is updated.
Following discussion about size thresholds and district-level concerns, the council adopted the temporary prohibition (officially recorded as passing with seven in favor and one opposed). Members asked the zoning office and legal staff to prepare permanent text amendments and to engage district council members about specific corridors such as Woodland Highway and other sensitive neighborhood areas.
The moratorium instructs the permit office to stop accepting new applications for the specified class of billboards received after May 28, 2026; applications submitted before that date may be processed under current rules.
