City of Roswell v. Outdoor Systems, Inc.

Fletcher, Chief Justice.

The City of Roswell enacted a temporary moratorium on applications for billboard signs after its sign ordinance was struck down as unconstitutional. During the month that the moratorium was in effect, Outdoor Systems filed four applications to construct billboard signs within the city. When the city failed to approve the applications, the billboard company filed a petition for mandamus, which the trial court granted. We granted the city’s discretionary application to consider the trial court’s ruling that the moratorium was void because the city failed to comply with…