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Council tables billboard restrictions after industry and resident debate; planning staff to post inventory
Summary
The council tabled an ordinance that would prevent new billboards in Hammond and require nonconforming signs to come into compliance, after City Planning presented a citywide inventory and business and industry representatives urged more flexibility and clearer notice procedures.
An ordinance proposing no new billboards in Hammond and tightening requirements for existing signs was tabled by the City Council after substantial public comment from sign companies and local advertisers.
City planner Frankie Legault said Planning staff had conducted a citywide inventory identifying permitted and nonconforming billboards and recommended grandfathering permitted, compliant signs while requiring nonconforming structures to come into compliance. She said billboards…
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