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Lexington council to revise wall-sign definition; asks staff to draft temporary window-sign rules
Summary
Council agreed unanimously to send a planning commission recommendation to the March meeting to clarify the town's definition of a "wall sign" so signs painted on or affixed to windows may be enforced, and asked staff to return with proposed temporary-window signage rules and outreach to businesses.
The Lexington Town Council voted unanimously Jan. 28 to place an amendment to the town sign ordinance on the council agenda in March after the planning commission recommended adding language to the definition of a "wall sign" to include signs "painted on or affixed to the inside or outside of the glass so as to be fully visible from off of the property." Mayor Hazel Livingston led the vote.
The change matters because, staff said, the current sign code does not explicitly treat some interior window clings and full-window covers as part of a business's wall-sign allotment, so code enforcement has limited ability to require their removal. "Without having something in the ordinance to enforce, it's difficult to get those people that have taken advantage of the good faith to remove the window signage," Jessica Labran, planning and building director, told…
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