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01-11-2010 Public Testimony Item 10BCITY OF WOODBURN CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER CARD Members of the public wishing to comment on items of general business must complete and submit a speaker's card fo the City Recorder prior to commencing this portion of the Council's agenda. Comment time may be limited by Mayoral prerogative. NAME: ~~ ~ ~ ~ IC.~ ~~ J ~ ~ /~,l'/ /~ PHONE #: ADDRESS: AGENDA DATE: _~ y ~ ~ '' 6 COMMENTS: AGENDA ITEM #: t n ~ T FOR OFFICE USE ONLY: Follow-up: CITY OF WOODBURN CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER CARD Members of the public wishing to comment on items of general business must complete and submit a speaker's card to the City Recorder prior to commencing this portion of the Council's agenda. Comment time may be limited by Mayor rerogative. g / NAME: / ~'~ .-' ~Lj ~I PHONE #: ADDRESS: AGENDA DATE: _ ~'- ~/'/G ~~ COMMENTS: mot/ AGENDA ITEM #: ~~ ,(g FOR OFFICE USE ONLY: Follow-up: CITY OF WOODBURN CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER CARD Members of the public wishing to comment on items of general business must complete and submit a speaker's card to the City Recorder prior to commencing this portion of the Council's agenda. Comment time may be limited by Mayoral prerogative. NAME: 1. C ~1 ~~J-~~--I - -PHONE #: ~© ~~ Z -,. ~~~ ADDRESS: AGENDA DATE: ~ ' L 1 "' ~~ COMMENTS: ~I.~.t AGENDA ITEM #: ~i G~,/L,_ ~~~f~1'~°'j ~ . ra ~~ ~ Old; FOR OFFICE USE ONLY: Follow-up: January S, 2010 To the Woodburn City Council: Re: Legislative Amendment-LA 2009-02, allowing signs in the public right-of-way in the Retirement Community Single Family Residential (R1S) Zone As the Woodburn Planning Commission's representative to the Sign Ordinance Focus Group, I wanted to ask that you allow the concerns over signs in the public right-of-way in the residential zone to be addressed through the focus group rather than making this change in this way. Many neighborhoods in Woodburn have no sidewalks and wide setbacks: Smith Addition, Johnson Addition, Tierra Lynn, portions of the Meadowvale/Hermiston area -and on and on. To make an exception of just one neighborhood, when the conditions are identical in many other neighborhoods, will only invite real trouble down the road. Real Estate signs can be seen by anyone driving the residential streets if they are driving the speed limit even if they are set back 13'. If other neighborhoods throughout town were also allowed to put signs in the right of way, the message would be perceived to be: Public right-of-ways are fair game for ail kinds of signage. Even with the requirement to obtain the owner's permission, signs will proliferate. How about a sign advertizing your daughter's hair salon or your uncle's bakery? We cannot regulate content, so these signs could be put in the right-of-way. This would be especially troublesome if the right-of-way behind your house is on the highway. The public is saying to our Sign Ordinance Focus Group "Clean up the messy look of Woodburn." Let's not go around the Focus Group and add our residential areas to the clutter of Woodburn. Thank you for your attention. ~. O~~ Ellen Bandelow Chairperson, Woodburn Planning Commission Sign Ordinance Focus Group