Planners Have Big Impact on Sign and Visual Communications Industry
Having a direct impact on the sign and visual communications, twenty-five planners gathered in the Big Easy for a day-long seminar designed to help educate planners on how signs benefit communities and how they can be reasonably regulated so that all stakeholders benefit.
New Orleans, Louisiana, was the most recent site of ISA’s educational outreach to local sign code officials as 25 planners, consultants, attorneys and local chamber staff participated in the third
Planning for Sign Code Success event of 2014.
The event was co-produced along with the Mid South Sign Association (MSSA) and the Signage Foundation Inc. (SFI). While there, attendees learned about how and with what signs are built, the legal rights of sign users, how to effectively treat EMCs, about a recent effort in New Orleans to promote neon retro-signage and the process in developing sign codes. Speakers included Steve Barnett (A-1 Signs in New Orleans, La.), Daktronics’ Joel Heine, New Orleans Planning Commissioner Jeffrey Schwarz and ISA staff. Since 2011, ISA and MSSA have presented planner education events in Memphis Tenn., Huntsville, Ala. and New Orleans La.
The previous two Planning for Sign Code Success events this year took place in Portland, OR (June 27th) and Houston, TX (May 30th); ISA, its Affiliated Associations and SFI will be hosting more of these events in Ohio, Wisconsin, California and Connecticut. Since 2011, ISA, its Affiliated Associations and SFI have educated over 500 local sign code officials at these events. For more information, please contact ISA’s David Hickey.
