Updated on June 9, 2025 9:26 am

An ordinance proposing changes to Bossier City regulations regarding signs and electronic message boards in residential areas ed an introductory vote of the City Council Tuesday. 

The measure will come up for a final vote at the council’s next meeting. 

Bossier Metropolitan Planning Commission Executive Director Carlotta Askew-Brown said the MPC received a request last year for digital signs to be installed in residential subdivisions, “which was kind of unique for us because all of our ordinances protect residential subdivisions from the nuisance issues that LED boards typically give off.”

However, in the ordinance, the MPC proposed guidelines that said such signs would only be allowed in subdivisions with at least 100 buildable lots and with active homeowners associations or designated as a Neighborhood Conservation Overlay District.

“So if there’s existing subdivisions that want to do this, they have qualifiers that they have to check off in order to do it,” Askew-Brown added.

The signs cannot be billboard-sized; they are restricted to a maximum of 32 square feet. If an electronic message board is located in a gated subdivision, it would need to be behind the entrance gate, she said.

“The sign also cannot be directed into anybody’s home, so it’s not shining in their windows or anything like that.”

Any application for a residential message board would require MPC approval.

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