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Council directs staff to revise display‑device rules after downtown business asks to keep feather flags

3089039 · April 22, 2025
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Summary

Following public comment from a downtown business owner, Rosenberg council directed staff to revise the Unified Development Code to clarify prohibited display devices and to prepare language that would allow feather flags subject to time limits.

A downtown barber and other speakers asked the city to clarify its display‑device rules after the council removed the word “festoon” from the banned‑device list at a prior meeting.

Rocky Olgene, who owns a barbershop on Avenue G, told the council that a feather flag (also described in the discussion as a “swooper” or feather flag) helped attract new customers and that such banners are not the dictionary definition of a festoon. City staff noted that the…

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