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Commission considers tightening illumination and setback rules after reviewing neighboring township ordinance
Summary
Red Lion planning commissioners reviewed Spring Garden Township sign rules and suggested removing allowances for flashing/intermittent lights, clarifying definitions for 'direct' vs. 'indirect' illumination, and keeping sight-triangle protections while removing some minimum-distance advertising restrictions.
Commissioners reviewed language drawn from Spring Garden Township's sign ordinance and recommended edits to illumination and setback provisions. Minutes note a recommendation to remove a Spring Garden provision that allowed flashing and intermittent lights in certain zones and to keep a provision restricting illumination that directs or reflects toward adjacent residences. The minutes record the need to define terms such as 'direct' and 'indirect', and to clarify 'external' versus 'internal' lighting and issues with internally mounted signs that project externally.
On setbacks, the commission proposed keeping a rule that prevents signs from being located within a 'clear sight triangle' and that bars signs that interfere with pedestrian or vehicular traffic, while removing Spring Garden provisions that impose a 10-foot minimum distance from the ROW and minimum distances between advertising signs or limits on large advertising signs near residential zones. Attorney Craley pointed commissioners to Red Lion's Ordinance Section 21-108 for guidance on projections.
