Hanni’s campaign banner erected without city’s OK

YOUNGSTOWN — A large banner touting the candidacy of Heidi A. Hanni as Mahoning County prosecutor on the front of her downtown law office is probably on its way down.

The banner was placed across the front of the West Boardman Street law office building co-owned by the candidate and her father, Atty. Don Hanni Jr., without the permission of the city’s Design Review Committee.

“They need permission to put up the sign,” said William D’Avignon, the committee’s chairman and the city’s community development agency director.

Hanni said today she didn’t know she needed the city’s approval to “put a sign on my building. If I have to apply for a permit, I will. I hope they don’t ask me to take it down.”

But if the city asks that it come down, Hanni said she’d comply.

Approval from the Design Review Committee is needed for an exterior work of a building in the downtown area.

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