Bracewell Stadium
Burlington officials are still looking for a way to fully legalize a sign on the newly-renovated Bracewell Stadium Property that is currently out of compliance.
The city council is already likely to change the stadium’s zoning area to C-1 commercial zoning from R-4 residential in order to allow the sign, which bears an advertisement for Universal Therapy and is considered a billboard.
But Mayor Shane McCampbell and Councilman Bob Fleming said during a Monday night Work Session that they were concerned that changing the sign code to allow sponsored signs with no other requirements would lead to a huge number of billboards popping up all over town.
“Inside the stadium, you can put signs all over the place, but when you put it on school property, there is something about that that bothers me,” said Fleming.
To get around that issue, Councilman Tim Scott proposed creating a new zone specifically for institutions like schools and other public buildings. Development Director Eric Tysland says that would require a lot of man hours, but that it was possible.
“It’s something that we could do as an alternative. It’s not a zone that we have in our zoning code right now, we would have to create a whole new section of our zoning code…it would be a major overhaul,” said Tysland.
The sign was originally not supposed to have a permanent advertisement, it was added as the result of a design change mid-project. The City Council previous voted to change the zone to allow Billboards on the Property.
