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Garland committee reviews sign ordinance, considers administrative waivers for downtown businesses
Summary
The Development Services Committee reviewed five years of sign variance requests and discussed options to reduce permitting burdens for downtown and citywide businesses, including a possible administrative waiver for small deviations.
The Garland Development Services Committee on March 17, 2025, reviewed the city's sign ordinance and debated whether staff should be allowed to grant limited administrative waivers to reduce the permitting burden on businesses.
Staff told the committee it had compiled a list of five sign variances in the past five years and identified one recent downtown waiver application for a business called Epiphany. "We did our best. We looked at all the logs. We looked at agenda packets, for the past 5 years to find anything else that had signs in there," a staff member said.
Why it matters: Committee members said the current process can be slow and intimidating for small-business owners, but others warned that…
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