Albany City Commission Delays Vote on Proposed Sign Ordinance Changes
Friday, March 27th, 2015
When it became apparent they’d stirred up more questions with their discussion than they had provided answers, the Albany city commissioners voted to table proposed changes to the city’s sign ordinance at its business meeting Tuesday night.
Planning Director Paul Forgey had brought recommendations to the commission based on discussions by a Sign Ordinance Task Force and the Albany/Dougherty County Planning Commission. The proposed changes ranged from new fees for signs, allowing billboards in additional zoning districts, granting permission for mobile signs, the legality of nonconforming signs that were in place before the current sign ordinance was passed, historic sign designation, and the frequency at which multimessage signs would be allowed to change messages.
