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Commission adopts first reading of sign-code rewrite; limits added after debate
Summary
After debate over pole signs, electronic messages and temporary political signs, the commission approved first reading of an amended sign code; commissioners asked staff to lower proposed height and area and to limit pole signs to case-by-case review.
The City Commission on Tuesday approved first reading of a rewritten city sign ordinance that removes content‑based restrictions, simplifies sign districts and updates sign types — but members limited several proposed relaxations after public discussion.
Planning staff said the rewrite was prompted in part by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Reed v. Town of Gilbert decision and related case law that restrict content‑based regulation of signs. The draft narrows the city’s existing 15 sign districts into a smaller set of district groupings (residential, low/medium/high intensity and downtown/institutional) and rescopes rules…
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