Council debates electronic signage rules — no code change tonight; council asks interested agencies to make a specific request
After extended discussion about aesthetics, First Amendment limits, security risks, and public-safety uses, the council declined to adopt changes to allow commercial electronic signs and signaled it will only pursue changes for government entities if and when a specific agency presents a request.
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Park Ridge councilmembers spent an extended portion of the meeting discussing whether to permit electronic message-board signage in the city. Staff and legal counsel framed the decision as a community-character judgment with separate questions about whether signs would be limited to governmental entities or opened to commercial users.
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