Post Falls Businesses Get Leeway In Putting Up Signs

Businesses that want to use temporary signs in Post Falls will have more flexibility to do so, the City Council decided Tuesday night.

It adopted a new sign ordinance.

“Overall, it’s less restrictive than the existing ordinance,” said Planning and Building Director Gary Young. The main changes are regarding portable, temporary and rooftop signs, he said.

The council also created an advisory sign committee to help administer the new sign ordinance. It will be composed of five people, whom the Post Falls Chamber of Commerce will appoint, and will have no legal authority. It will make any recommendations concerning the sign ordinance to the city planning and zoning commission, which makes recommendations to the city council.

“They don’t want any city staff policing them,” said City Councilman Clay Larkin. “They wanted to police themselves.”

Two committees have worked on revising the city’s sign ordinance over the past 2 years. The new ordinance is the result of their work.

The ordinance itself adds some new definitions of types of signs, allows sandwich-board signs, adopts the Uniform Sign Code published by the International Conference of Building Officials, allows more temporary signs and makes many regulations clearer.