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Council hears bill to ban LED signs in neighborhoods
At-large Councilman Ronnie Steine has introduced a bill that will prohibit Light Emitting Diode (LED) signs in residential zoning districts.
The bill is in response to the bogged-down piece of legislation fellow At-large Councilman Charlie Tygard had sponsored. Tygard’s initial bill would have allowed LED signs such as the ones often seen at pharmacies to be used by religious institutions and schools in residential areas.
Tygard’s bill is deferred indefinitely at the Council level and was disapproved by the Planning Commission. Tygard has vowed to amend the bill to allow religious institutions and schools to use LED signs on major roads like Harding Pike and West End and to allow them for special exceptions on other streets.
The bill has faced resistance from neighborhood associations and Council members across Nashville who say the signs are too bright and distracting for residential areas.
In the meantime, Steine’s bill would explicitly outlaw them in all residential areas. Steine’s bill is up for first reading at tomorrow night’s Metro Council meeting.
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Unless I'm mistaken, Steine was a co-sponsor of Tygard's original bill to allow LED signs. Or at least he was a supporter. Now he's introducing a bill to specifically outlaw them?Sounds like Ronnie being Ronnie. "There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them."— Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, French politician (1807-1874)
Sounds like Hillary
How does Ronnie et al define residential is the key question? The devil is in the details.
The signs are too bright and distracting for residential areas. And they are also a nuisance on the major roads. Tygard must have gotten alot more campaign money than Steine from 'the sign man'
someone with the screen name cdkoellein posted the following on www.nashvillecharrette.com - hope they don't mind me pasting here - "I was pleased to see that the Planning Commission voted against this idea. In fact, I am of the mindset that inappropriately large, bright, and cluttered signage is among the most deteriorative influences on Metro's quality of life. There is not a single commercial corridor in Nashville that isn't made ugly by signage - a dizzying array of glaring and blinking plastic lollipops - and the whole city's property values are diminished by the blight of it all." "Were I king for a day, just a single day, I would tackle signage before any other issue. We should be trying diligently to beautify our city, not to further muck it up with liberalized signage regulation. Were we to focus on our quality of life more, we might quit hemorrhaging our population to Wmson County, where signage proliferation has been severely curtailed to lovely effect. No one wants to live or work in the shadow of a giant television on stilts."