State Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Haines is seeking a means for downtown businesses to keep signs in place in the face of state regulations that say they must be permanently moved from state rights-of-way.
Thomas staffer Kaci Schroeder Hotch said federal law seems to show that the state Department of Transportation can work with federal secretary of Transportation to grandfather in the kinds of right-of-way encroachments that appear in Haines.
The state has cited federal…
