(Milford)– A procedural error has the Milford city council re-visiting an off-premises sign ordinance.
The city council last July held a first consideration of the proposed ordinance restricting billboards, and voted to adopt the ordinance after waiving the second and third readings. But City Administrator Brian Reed says there was an error in the process in that a public hearing was never held. As a result, the council Monday had to repeat a second consideration of the ordinance. A third consideration will be repeated at the council’s next meeting, at which time the public hearing will be held.
The ordinance was prompted by billboards that have been popping up on the city’s north side along Highway 71.
Reed also told the council Monday an engineering firm will be conducting a traffic study into the possibility of installing stoplights at the intersection of Highway 71 and 202nd Street, or the “Taco House Road”. The study will be jointly funded by the cities of Milford, Arnolds Park and West Okoboji and Dickinson county since their boundaries all meet in that intersection. Milford’s share of the study will be 400-dollars.
