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County updates sign regulations in Unified Development Ordinance; board votes to approve maintenance amendment
Summary
New Hanover County commissioners approved a staff‑initiated maintenance amendment to the Unified Development Ordinance to consolidate, modernize and make sign regulations content‑neutral, add standards for digital changeable‑copy signs and clarify permit requirements. The planning board recommended approval 6‑0 before the commissioners' vote.
The New Hanover County Board of Commissioners approved a staff‑initiated text amendment to the sign regulations of the county Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) at its Oct. 9 meeting, adopting changes staff described as a maintenance update to modernize, reorganize and align standards with recent court precedent.
Planning staff explained the amendment consolidates sign rules that are currently scattered across seven UDO articles, clarifies which signs require permits, separates manual changeable copy from electronic changeable‑copy (digital) signage, proposes…
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