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Planning committee tightens billboard rules, approves text amendments to sign and subdivision codes
Summary
The Tupelo planning committee approved TA 25‑03, a text amendment to chapters 10 and 12 of the development code that narrows where billboards are allowed, reduces maximum billboard height and increases separation and visibility restrictions; the committee added a requirement for two parallel parking spots at cluster mailboxes as a caveat to final,
The Tupelo planning committee voted to approve TA 25‑03, a text amendment to chapters 10 and 12 of the Tupelo development code that imposes new limits on billboard locations, height and construction, and makes several procedural changes to subdivision processing.
The amendments restrict billboards to agricultural, open‑space and industrial zones, reduce allowed billboard height from 35 feet to 25 feet where local standards apply, increase minimum separation distances between billboards and from other freestanding signs, and add requirements that billboard supporting structures be enclosed in masonry cladding. The committee approved the text with a caveat that a designated two‑vehicle parallel parking area be…
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