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Taunton zoning committee asks planner to draft billboard overlay, limits for digital signs
Summary
After debate over recent variances, Taunton city councillors asked the city planner to draft an overlay district and technical limits (size, setbacks, refresh rate) that would allow billboards in specified highway corridors while restricting them elsewhere.
Taunton zoning councillors asked the city planner on Thursday to draft an overlay district and technical standards for billboards, including digital/video signs, and return with proposed locations and size and refresh-rate limits.
The request came during a meeting of the Committee on Zoning after councillors raised concerns about a recent variance that allowed a new sign on County Street and about the prospect of rotating digital displays in residential or local-business areas. City Planner Kevin Scanlon told the committee the city currently treats billboards as a use that requires a variance from the Zoning Board of Appeals and site-plan review, but offered an alternative: create a linear overlay along major routes where billboards would be…
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