{"id":187502,"date":"2026-03-03T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/187502\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:10:07","slug":"lakeway-to-allow-full-color-building-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/187502\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeway to allow full color building signs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLakeway residents may notice more pops of color around the city following the approval of a new sign ordinance in February<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Diving in deeper<\/p>\n

The ordinance changes were initially proposed by Lakeway\u2019s Economic Development Committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to do is increase visibility of these businesses so they can be seen by potential customers,\u201d EDC Chair Larry Harlan said.<\/p>\n

The measure was adopted <\/a>by Lakeway City Council in a 5-2 decision Feb. 17, with Mayor Tom Kilgore and council member Kent O\u2019Brien opposed to the final version of the ordinance.<\/p>\n

Like other cities in the Lake Travis-Westlake area, Lakeway\u2019s prior sign ordinance rules<\/a> only allowed business signs to be built in earth-tone colors. Although initially larger in scope, the approved ordinance changes include<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Building signs: full-color signs with a logo up to 24 square feet for all commercially zoned locationsCommercial real estate signs: maximum size increased from 12 square feet to 24 square feet in earth-tone colors on property with frontage on RM 620\/Hwy. 71Approvals: code officials will now approve new signs and monument signs if they are code-compliant; Zoning and Planning Commission approval required only if code official directs the item to ZAPCO or a variance is neededThe discussion<\/p>\n

The existing city ordinance allows new businesses to have \u201cnow open\u201d or \u201ccoming soon\u201d banners. A provision to allow shopping centers with at least 20 tenants to show banners was also presented, but was removed from the final version of the ordinance following an amendment proposed by council member Kelly Brynteson.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think people are cautiously trying to stagger-step this in, and we hope the steps we are doing is positive for our smaller businesses,\u201d Brynteson said. “We\u2019re trying to ease it into what residents have to say in regards to this, as well as supporting our small businesses.”<\/p>\n

Kilgore voted in opposition to the amended ordinance, saying the amendment rejects the vision of the EDC.<\/p>\n

My opposition is because I believe that both requests by the EDC and the business community were reasonable to have the temporary banners and to have the colors on the real estate signs,” Kilgore said. “Since we approved it but without that, I\u2019m voting against that.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakeway residents may notice more pops of color around the city following the approval of a new sign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,4519,10708,74841,52573,74840,74839,30223],"class_list":["post-187502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-city-council","tag-lakeway","tag-lakeway-business-sign-rules","tag-lakeway-city-council","tag-lakeway-sign-rules","tag-lakeway-signs","tag-signs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}