The recently proposed Zoning amendments now under consideration by the Planning Board and the City Council would, if approved, remove limitations on sign size, height, number, location and/or lighting! If that happens, signs proposed in many areas of the City will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis with minimal to non-existent fixed, predictable, sign-related standards to guide the City’s Planning Board during its approval/disapproval hearings. Moreover, the Board will only be required to notify close-by property owners of such hearings that could negatively affect everyone’s visual environment.
If this concerns you, too, please speak up and/or write in your concerns on or before this coming Tues., Sept. 7, when there will be two, back-to-back public meetings on these proposed amendments: City Council/Ordinance Committee at 4:30 p.m. at City Hall and Planning Board at 7 p.m. at City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway. Or, email the City Council Council at Council@CambridgeMA.GOV and the Planning Board c/o Stuart Dash and Les Barber at sdash@cambridgema.gov, lbarber@cambridgema.gov.
