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New rule would limit sign permits to active projects and add 12‑month expiration, staff says
Summary
Staff proposed permitting most signs only as accessories to an existing or approved primary use and adding a 12‑month expiration to sign permits to prevent long‑term pre‑construction signage; staff will seek direction to publish for hearing.
Planning staff told the commission the draft would require sign permits to be tied to an existing or actively progressing primary use, with limited exceptions for land-for-sale or development-identification signage. "We wouldn't permit the sign at all prior to the bank going to construction," staff (speaker 2) explained when discussing pre-construction signage.
Staff also proposed that an approved sign permit will expire 12 months after approval unless building-permit activity is underway, a change staff said is intended to prevent signs being erected years before a business or development proceeds. Commissioners discussed the coordination between site plan approval, building permits and sign permits and asked staff to clarify the application process at the public hearing.
