MC Council Flip-flops On Signage Issue--

Missouri City Council Turns Thumbs Down On Requested 40-Foot Kroger Grocery Sign
by Bob Dunn, Apr 17, 2007, 09 46 am

Missouri City Council surprised Newquest Properties officials Monday night – and perhaps city staffers, too – by refusing to grant variances for 10 signs that would be much larger than allowed by the city’s sign ordinance.

Houston-based Newquest wants the signs on behalf of Kroger, which is planning to locate a grocery at Fort Bend Town Center, a new two-phase retail center at State Highway 6 and the Fort Bend Parkway.

The refusal was surprising because council members voted at their last meeting to approve an ordinance on first reading that would have allowed the sign variances – even including one 40-foot-tall, 660-square-foot sign that would have dwarfed the maximum current commercial sign size of 96 square feet. Monday night the council was expected to approve the ordinance on its second and final reading, and city staff had recommended it do so. . . (click title link above for full FBN story).

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Comment: Interesting that this council claims they did it for residents who live in Missouri City when they ignored their pleas at the first reading. Perhaps some other group influenced this decision?