City of Webster v. Signad, Inc.

OPINION

DUGGAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment declaring a portion of a city sign ordinance unconstitutional. The ordinance in question was the basis of the city’s refusal to allow a sign company to repair six hurricane-damaged billboards.

Appellee, SignAd, Inc., owns a number of billboard signs within the jurisdiction of the appellant City of Webster, all of which were erected prior to the passage of the city’s sign ordinance and were permitted as non-conforming signs under the ordinance’s “grandfather” clause. When seven of ap-pellee’s signs were damaged by Hurricane Alicia…