Candidates and ballot-measure campaigns at Fair Oaks Ranch polling sites would face a four-square-foot limit on most signs under a city proposal that also allows up to three signs per candidate or measure.
Candidates, campaign workers and ballot-measure volunteers would have to resize or replace larger placards before setting up at a city polling place.
Candidates and ballot-measure campaigns could not use signs larger than four square feet at city polling sites; they could place signs no earlier than the day before voting and would have to remove them the day after voting ends.
Tents and canopies would receive separate treatment. A canopy carrying political messaging would count as one sign, could measure up to 10 feet by 10 feet and would be limited to one per candidate or measure each day on a first-come, first-served basis. The draft also limits sign stakes to one inch in diameter or an equivalent cross-section.
The City Council’s Sept. 3 agenda schedules a public hearing and possible first reading of the ordinance at 6:30 p.m. in the Public Safety Training Room, 7286 Dietz Elkhorn Road. The council may revise or reject the proposal; the packet anticipates a second reading Sept. 17.
Residents can use the city’s archived Aug. 20 meeting page to review the preceding council record and media. The Sept. 3 proposal is part of a broader development-code package that also includes the data-center special-use-permit proposal previously covered by Comal.News.
The proposed ordinance says the city secretary would maintain diagrams marking electioneering areas, sign-placement areas and restricted areas at polling sites. Readers can inspect the ordinance pages for the size limits, canopy exception and removal schedule; the council’s Sept. 3 action will show whether those provisions advance toward final adoption.