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Board grants 18‑month exception for Bottoms Bridge Tire sign after debate over overlay precedent
Summary
The board approved an 18‑month exception allowing Bottoms Bridge Tire and Auto Care to retain a reinstalled freestanding sign enlarged to about 85 sq ft, with the company agreeing to consider design or operational changes to return to compliance.
The New Kent County Board of Supervisors on Nov. 12 voted to grant an 18‑month exception to allow a freestanding monument sign at 3025 Pocahontas Trail to remain with an expanded area of roughly 85 square feet, after the sign was reinstalled with a pole‑mounted LED reader board following storm damage.
Planning staff told the board the Commerce Corridor overlay district limits freestanding signs to 50 square feet and the property’s previous legal…
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