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Spokane planners weigh amortizing billboards, compensation and historic sign protections
Summary
City staff proposed a phased approach to remove nonconforming off-premise signs, citing roughly 350 affected structures concentrated in four neighborhoods; commissioners asked for clearer definitions, protections for historically significant signs and staff to return with draft code and a workshop.
At a Jan. 14 Spokane Planning Commission meeting, city staff presented a policy framework to phase out nonconforming off-premise advertising signs, outline possible compensation where state permits are involved and protect historically significant signs.
Adam McDaniel of the mayor’s office told the commission the city’s inventory likely includes “at least there’s probably 350” nonconforming signs and proposed a graduated amortization schedule that would prioritize removal of abandoned signs in neighborhood retail and residential zones before downtown and commercial zones. McDaniel said Wenatchee’s 2020 ordinance, which set a 10-year removal schedule, provided one example of how cities have approached amortization.
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