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Resident raises billboard and sign-regulation concerns; staff to prepare text amendment for highway-fronting signs
Summary
A homeowner asked the planning commission to allow larger highway-facing signs on a parcel she owns; staff recommended pursuing a zoning text amendment and will draft a staff report with an October–November review and a December–January council timeline rather than granting a variance.
A resident and property owner urged the Augusta Planning Commission to consider revising the city's sign regulations to address highway-fronting billboards, and planning staff said they will prepare a text amendment and bring it back to the commission for public review.
Kim Brun Brunkart, who said she owns property that fronts the highway and lives at 11967 Southwest 90 Ninth, described plans to place two highway-facing signs roughly 10-by-30 feet in size (she said they would be about 25 feet high) on the portion of her lot that she intends to use for signage. Brunkart said her intent was to rent space on the signs to advertisers rather than use them only for her own business and that she has discussed potential design with staff.
Staff told the commission that the current zoning and sign…
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