The Empire Strikes Back! (wait, who’s really the empire here?)
January 21, 2021
An interesting new bill has popped out this afternoon at the state legislature:
SB120 – Outdoor Advertising Revisions, sponsored by Sen. Derek Kitchen. This bill would prohibit placement of billboards on private property without a lease, and would prohibit the lease from including a provision for right of first refusal for the sign company. Sen. Kitchen is a former Salt Lake City councilmember, and I can tell you from my time at SLC that such clauses caused innumerable headaches any time the city or another public entity sought to acquire property that happened to have a billboard on it. Be interesting to see how this one goes!
A couple of bills are up for hearing in committee tomorrow –
HB171 – Agricultural Land Use Regulation at 2:00 pm
SB111 – Records of Residential Property Owner Zoning Violations at 2:20 pm
Finally, here’s the League’s 2021 Legislative Advocacy Statements, which includes a pretty extensive section on dealing with growth. Could have been written by planners! 😊
Wilf Sommerkorn
Co-Chair, APA Utah Legislative Committee
