Politics & Government
Lakewood to Curb (Some) No-Turn-On-Red Signs
There will still be signs, but city council ditches an ordinance that mandates right turns on red at 120 lights.
Lakewood City Council gave the green light to scrap an ordinance that .
The new ordinance will allow the director of public safety (the mayor) to set the restrictions “as needed.”
For example, signs near shuttered schools are no longer needed, said Kevin Butler, the city’s law director.
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He added that the measure wouldn’t take away council’s ability to set right-turn restrictions.
There will still be a master list of signs, Butler said, but it'll be kept with the city administration, which will no longer need council’s approval to take them down.
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Although council will still be notified of each change, he added.
Joe Beno, the city’s director of , said recently that his department took an inventory of the city’s signs last year. Out of the city’s 7,800 signs, there are 120 no-turn-on-red signs in Lakewood.
Some signs are expected to start coming down in the coming months.
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