Council to take up sign code Monday

Friday, April 29, 2011

The firsts are out of the way for the new Jefferson City Council and mayor, and at Monday night’s meeting, it will be time to get down to business.

One of the first major pieces of business the council will deal with is the city’s existing code pertaining to electronic signs.

The council will be presented Monday night with a amendment to the city’s sign ordinance to allow electronic signs under “stringent regulations.”

Janice McMillan, deputy director of Planning and Transportation Services, said during the council pre-meeting Thursday morning the bill came as a result of several months of discussion by the city’s ad hoc committee on signs.

The electronic signs will be permitted only in C-2, M-1 and M-2 zones. Additionally, if the only information displayed by the sign involves the time and temperature or the cost of gas at a gas station, then the signs will also be permitted in the C-0, C-1 and C-3 zones. In all cases, the electronic portion cannot cover more than 50 percent of the total allowed signage that a single establishment is allowed.

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JCLifer 2 years ago

Regulate these things. We don't want no electronic computer technology stuff in our city!

JCsleeper 2 years ago

Folks, modern electronic signs are very serious business for our fair city. Although other metropolitan areas such as Camdenton and Osage Beach have them., JC should continue to embrace the 50's, Be sure to continue to regulate anything new. Tthat ought to bring back the young professionals..

JCLifer 2 years ago

The City Fathers should also be working to ban Wi-Fi in this town. Rumor has it that there are some very nasty pictures and videos that can be found on Wi-Fi. People can even do online gambling using Wi-Fi.

gofish 2 years ago

Sounds like I'll need glasses to read the gas station prices if the current size of the numbers can now only be 50% as big as they were before. I wonder if this means electronic signs and traffic lights will have to be cut in half. No more "your speed is" signage when it's outside the specified zones. Enlightenment seems to be another century away.

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