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Planning board recommends UDO sign maintenance amendment to clarify digital‑sign rules
Summary
The New Hanover County Planning Board on Sept. 4 voted unanimously to recommend a countywide maintenance amendment to the Unified Development Ordinance that updates sign definitions, addresses digital signage luminance, and clarifies treatment of legal nonconforming signs. The item will go to the Board of Commissioners in October.
The New Hanover County Planning Board voted unanimously Sept. 4 to recommend a maintenance amendment to the county’s Unified Development Ordinance that modernizes sign-related provisions and adds explicit rules for digital signage.
The amendment, presented by Planning Director Rebecca Rolfe, is intended to “clarify provisions related to digital signs” and to restructure sign regulations so they are easier to find and administer, Rolfe said. The board’s recommendation sends the amendment to the Board of Commissioners for final consideration at the county’s first October meeting.
The proposed changes arose from a staff audit of the UDO’s sign sections after the 2020 UDO adoption, Rolfe told the board. Staff cited three drivers for the update: advances in sign technology, changes in state law that limit local regulation of nonconforming signs, and…
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