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Council hears first reading of wide-ranging sign code changes emphasizing content neutrality and new mural guidance
Summary
On first reading, staff presented a rework of the Unified Development Ordinance sign rules to focus on content neutrality, reclassify sign types, and add mural and downtown lighting/style guidance; councilors pressed for residential protections and limits on duration of temporary signs.
Lauren Gillingham Teague introduced Ordinance 26-01, a first reading amendment to the Westfield Washington Township Unified Development Ordinance focused on sign regulations. The rewrite emphasizes content neutrality (time, place and manner) to avoid content-based restrictions that could run afoul of First Amendment jurisprudence, and reclassifies temporary and permanent sign types by physical construction (yard sign, temporary…
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