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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING CODE OF THE CITY OF FOLEY TO PERMIT LEGAL NONCONFORMING BILLBOARDS IN CERTAIN AREAS TO BE CONVERTED INTO DIGITAL BILLBOARDS UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, TERMS, REQUIREMENTS AND CONDITIONS
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Proposed amendment to allow digital billboards with trade-off of removal of existing billboards. The ordinance was written by Casey Pipes & was recommended for approval by the Planning Commission.
The first reading was on October 6, 2014 and the Public Hearing was held on October 20, 2014. The second reading of the ordinance was inadvertently left off the October 20, 2014 agenda.
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WHEREAS, off premises signs (“billboards”) are prohibited in the corporate limits of the City of Foley by the Zoning Code, but a significant number of billboards are in existence as legal nonconforming structures; and
WHEREAS, most of the legal nonconforming billboards are constructed in such a way that it is not reasonable to expect them to lose their legal nonconforming status through damage, destruction, or abandonment in the foreseeable future; and
WHEREAS, the City would like to reduce the number of billboards in the City of Foley by encouraging billboard owners to voluntarily remove billboards they have in the City; and
WHEREAS, the outdoor advertising company that owns the most billboards in the City of Foley expressed a willingness to remove several of their billboard sign faces for each billboard th...
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