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Commission recommends shrinking residential yard signs, adds rule against assembling multiple signs
Summary
The Planning Commission recommended a text amendment to Chapter 155 to reduce allowable residential yard-sign size from 8 to 6 square feet, prohibit assembling multiple yard signs into larger displays, and acknowledged that political signs are exempt from time and quantity limits under Illinois law.
The Lockport Planning Commission on Sept. 10 voted unanimously to recommend a text amendment to the city sign code that would reduce the maximum size of yard signs in residential districts from 8 square feet to 6 square feet and add language to prevent assembling multiple yard signs into larger displays.
Planning staff presented Case No. 2024-005 TA and explained that the change aims to allow commonly used 18-by-24-inch…
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