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Kyoto enforces ad ban, building height changes
KYOTO (Kyodo) The Kyoto city government on Sept. 1 began enforcing a set of ordinances that lower building height limits and ban all rooftop and blinking advertisements to preserve the historic scenery of the ancient capital.
In mid-March, the city passed a series of ordinances limiting the height of new or renovated commercial buildings in the downtown area to 31 meters, or roughly 10 stories. The current height limit is 45 meters.
Buildings in other parts of the city that are designated mixed commercial-residential areas will have to lower their heights from the current maximum of 31 meters to 15 meters, or roughly five stories.
Rooftop advertising and flashing neon signs will also be banned, and restrictions placed on the color, shape and architectural design of new or renovated buildings to create a less flashy, more subdued urban atmosphere that looks, according to a City Hall bureaucrat, less like modern Tokyo or Osaka and more like traditional Kyoto.
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