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Local businesses urge council to grandfather electronic message displays amid dark‑skies debate
Summary
Business owners and written commenters told the Liberty Hill City Council that proposed dark‑skies and sign rules would impose large costs on small businesses and asked that existing electronic message displays (EMDs) be treated as legal nonconforming (grandfathered) during the UDC rewrite.
Business owners told the Liberty Hill City Council during a lengthy public‑comment period that proposed dark‑skies regulations and changes to the Unified Development Code could render existing electronic message displays unusable and harm small, local retailers.
Several speakers asked the council to classify existing EMDs as legally nonconforming or "grandfathered" so the rights to use and repair signs would transfer with property sales. "We dim their output after dark to keep them creating a nuisance," the mayor read from a submitted letter signed by Chad Moore, a local…
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