The great signage debate of 2011-2015 is over for now, with the authority for decisions about off-premises signs moving to the borough manager.
The Haines Borough Planning Commission recommended at its May 15 meeting that off-premises signs be regulated through a conditional use permit process, but the assembly instead accepted a memo by manager David Sosa and granted him the power to decide whether a business can have an off-premises sign.
The assembly didn’t hold…

