The Kerrville City Council has declined to grant relief to the owners of billboards who — under a decades-old initiative aimed at bringing signs into conformation with municipal regulations — must remove or shrink the oversize advertisements.
A past council extended a 2006 deadline set in the mid-1980s for compliance with the sign ordinance, but the current council last week decided against granting additional time, as requested by William “Junior” Fritz of Hill Country Billboards Leasing, LLC.
About 370 other local signs were removed or modified to comply with a 1986 ordinance that set a 100-square-foot limit on the size of off-premises signs, but nearly 20 billboards still standing don’t meet code, said city officials, who saw little choice but to enforce the rule.
“Had we voted to grant (Fritz’s) waiver, that would have opened us up to litigation from the other 370 people who complied,” City Councilman Scott Gross said.
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