City staff recommends approval of conditional-use permit for Highway 23 billboard; council vote not recorded

City staff presented a conditional-use permit request for an off-premise billboard proposed along Highway 23 north of the Grand Depot area and recommended that the council approve an attached resolution imposing standard conditions, including height and size limits and required Department of Transportation sign-off.

According to staff, the proposed structure would be a V configuration with one digital face and one static face; the static face could be converted later if the sign continues to meet ordinance criteria. Staff noted a roughly 150-foot gap on the parcel that meets spacing requirements and acknowledged that an adjacent property owner with an older static billboard would be unable to convert that existing sign to digital as a consequence of how the city ordinance is written.

Staff emphasized that the proposal appears to meet the city's off-premise sign ordinance and that final permit issuance would require sign-off from the state Department of Transportation. A councilmember moved and seconded a resolution to approve the conditional-use permit; the provided transcript does not include a clear recorded vote result for this item.