Haines Borough’s signage regulations are unconstitutional and need to be changed, the borough’s code review commission was told March 2.
While the municipality can regulate the time, place and manner of signs, a 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision makes it illegal to restrict content, commission chairman Mike Denker told the group. “There are legal consequences for the borough on this.”
Current borough code – Title 18, chapter 18.90 Signs – regulates political signs, traffic-control signs, real…
