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Council weighs moving sign rules into zoning, discusses billboard ban and political-sign limits
Summary
City staff proposed moving sign regulations into the zoning appendix and asked council to confirm whether to restrict billboards and to clarify rules for political and temporary signs; legal counsel flagged first‑amendment and extraterritorial‑jurisdiction (ETJ) issues and recommended edits.
City staff proposed on March 18 to move most sign regulations from Chapter 78 into the zoning ordinance as an appendix to make district-specific rules easier to maintain and to eliminate inconsistent cross-references.
City attorney Cynthia Trevino told council the city has home‑rule authority to regulate signs but that the current draft mixes general sign rules with zoning‑specific provisions. "If these are regulations that make sense across the city, you can say ... these are time, place,…
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