Sign Permit
Missoula’s sign ordinance provides an equal opportunity for all citizens to display advertising while preserving Missoula’s natural scenic beauty and protecting public safety by reducing distractions to traffic and ensuring traffic signs are not obstructed. Most signs in Missoula require permits.
Development Services processes and reviews sign permit applications. Through the review and permitting process, Development Services staff ensure that signs meet our Municipal Code requirements and all applicable adopted life, health, and safety codes and standards.
Each property owner is responsible for proper permitting, installation, and maintenance of all signs on their property.
Development Services investigates compliance issues on a complaint basis only. If there is a sign violation that you would like to report, please fill out the Citizen Complaint Form. Complaints are investigated in the order that they are received.
- Where do I start?
- Are there other permits required?
- What are the steps to a sign permit?
- When is a sign permit required?
- Where can I see the status of my sign permit?
- Which signs are prohibited?
- How is the height of a sign determined?
- When is an engineering review required for my sign?
- Do sign permits expire?
- Are there standards for sign lighting?
- What clearances affect my signs?
- What is a Visibility Obstruction Triangle and how does it affect my sign?
- What are the application requirements for a sign permit?
- What are the required documents for a sign permit?
- What is a frontage and how does it affect my sign?
- When and where are political signs allowed?
- What is Fire Premise Identification?
- How is Street Addressing handled under Missoula Municipal Code?