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Commissioners table proposed changes to billboard rules after multi-hour discussion
Summary
A developer-backed text amendment to Lee County's unified development ordinance that would change distance limits, allow digital signage and specify construction standards for billboards was discussed in detail; the board voted to table the proposal for further review.
Lee County commissioners on Jan. 6 moved to table a developer-proposed text amendment to Section 11.9.2 of the county’s Unified Development Ordinance that would alter how the county regulates outdoor advertising signs (billboards).
Planning staff presented the application submitted by Warren Stansil of Interstate Outdoor, outlining proposed changes including replacing a 100-foot buffer from residential zoning with a 500-foot buffer measured to dwellings, changing the method of measuring separation between billboards from a 1,000-foot radius to 1,000 linear feet along the same right-of-way, permitting changeable/digital copy subject to light-mitigation technology, requiring 2-mile spacing between digital signs…
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