Planning officials have unveiled new rules for how businesses can display different types of signs, a response to fears about the traffic hazards some of them might create (i.e. chicken legs in the middle of the street).
Our colleague Emily Le Coz (and former biz reporter) wrote about the new rules here. My favorite is the one regarding digital billboards:
Electronic graphic display: a sign that shows pictures, text and graphics but doesn’t create motion, like the billboard at Crosstown. Displays can change a minimum of once every eight seconds and must be dimmed after sunset. If placed on-premise, these signs cannot exceed 40 percent of the total allowable sign area. If used as a billboard, they must be 1,500 feet from any other billboard and the applicant must remove two of its other standard billboards from the city.
City Planner Pat Falkner told Biz Buzz today that the Planning Committee has approved the rules and the issue now goes before the City Council. The members are supposed to vote on the new rules in March.
why is this even an issue, i’d say talking on cell phones are still a bigger driving hazzard.
I’m not sure what the big fuss is about either. I’ve never been bothered by the signs, but then I’ve never seen a chicken leg in the middle of the street either. A pickle? Now that could be a problem.
hope kroger doesn’t put one up with banana peals going everywhere, might be a slippery situation