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Planning Department reports progress, warns of relocation risks in general advertising sign program
Summary
Planning Department staff told the Planning Commission the city's general advertising sign program has mapped and screened the inventory of signs, removed hundreds and collected increased penalties, while public testimony urged caution over relocation agreements that could create new billboards despite Prop G.
The Planning Department presented its fifth annual general advertising sign program report to the San Francisco Planning Commission on April 19, 2012, detailing inventory, enforcement and revenue from the effort created after voters approved Proposition G in 2002.
Staff said the department now maintains a searchable map and photo inventory of recognized legal general advertising signs and that, after citywide screening and enforcement, 860 signs were recognized as legally installed. Staff reported 733 signs removed over the five years of the program and said…
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