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Planning staff reports billboard enforcement progress, litigation and fines in annual sign-program update
Summary
Planning staff told the commission the sign program has processed about 1,100 of roughly 1,600 known general advertising signs, removed 321 signs to date, opened ~10 lawsuits with sign companies and cited penalties that can reach $2,500 per day for large unauthorized signs.
Dan Snyder, a planning department staffer, presented the Planning Department’s annual report on the general advertising sign program and described enforcement, litigation and the program’s finances. He said the department has assembled a citywide inventory of roughly 1,600 general advertising signs and has processed about 1,100 of those signs, with roughly 321 mostly‑illegal signs removed to date. “Nearly half of the billboards that we’ve looked at are illegal,” Snyder told commissioners.
Snyder said the program has faced litigation: sign companies have…
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