10-25-2010 Presentation: Hendryx - Sign ChangesCity Council Workshop
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Problems - Current Standards
• Standards Adopted 2005
• Dozens of Differing Standards
- Height
- Size
- Location
- Type
• Text Difficult to Understand
• Numerous Nonconforming Signs
Problems - Current Standards
• Restrictive
• No Incentives to Improve Signage
• Most Existing Signage Nonconforming
• Complaints, Complaints, &Complaints
Sign Focus Committee
- Ellen Bandelow
- Dan Dinges
- Melissa Hayden
-Jake Jacobsen
- Kelly Long
- Pete McCallum
-Mike Sumner
-Teri Sunderland
- Elizabeth Vega
-Cliff Zauner
Sign Focus Committee —
Recommendations
• Simplify Standards
- Business friendly
- Standardize height
- Combine signage on larger sites
- Simplify text language
- Understandable tables
• Simplify Processes
- Administrative review
Sign Focus Committee —
Recommendations
• Relax Standards
- Wall signs
- Recognize buildings further from rights -of -way
- Recognize need for freeway - oriented signage
• Electronic Reader - boards
- Combined signage allows larger reader - boards
- Allowed in residential zones for non - residential
uses
Sign Focus Committee —
Recommendations
• Nonconforming Uses
- Nonconforming signs -allow minor site
modification (up to 1,000 sq ft addition —Type II)
without total conformance
- Nonconforming signs -allow minor sign
modification without total conformance
• Uniform Enforcement
• Education
Public Hearing - Proposed
Revisions to City sign standards
• Notice
- Property owner notice (5000 property owners)
- Business notice (1000 businesses)
- Mandatory notice language
- Newspaper notice
- Chamber of Commerce
- City Webpage
- Department of Land Conservation and
Development
• Minor Errors
- Contact information (area code & webpage)
Public Hearing - Proposed
Revisions to City sign standards
• 300 +Phone Calls
• Dozens of Counter Inquiries
• Mandatory Language Confusing to
Property Owners
• Text Available at City Hall and on
Webpage
• Planning Commission Hearing — Packed!
Types of Signs
onument Sign
Types of Signs
Monument Sign
Types of Signs
Pole
Sign
Types of Signs
Pole Sign
Temporary
Sign
Types of Signs
Banner
Directional
Sign
Types of Signs
Temporary
Types of Signs
Types of Signs
Flags
Types of Signs
Feather
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Proposed Revisions
• Existing and Proposed Sign
Standards
Residential Uses in the RS, RlS & RM
Two 3 sq
signs (IRS
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& R1 S)
ft monument
zones — Existing Standards
(6 ft) and wall signs
(RM) zone
Two flags are exempt
- 40 sq ft & 40 ft tall
Residential Uses in the RS, RlS & RM
zones - Proposed Standards
Three flags are exempt
— 40 sq ft & 40 ft tall
Residential Uses in the RS zone -
Temporary Signs
Temporary signs
Before /after elections
45 days before /seven
days after the election:
•24 square feet
No sign to exceed:
•6 square feet
*Five feet above grade
Residential Uses in the RS zone -
Temporary Signs
Temporary signs
Lawn signs and A -frame
signs in the public
right -of -way:
• RS and R1 S zone
No sign may be
established in the right -
of -way of a Major Arterial
Street
Same conditions as
recently enacted for the
R1 S zone
RS, RlS, RM, and P /SP zones
Non - residential uses — existing
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IRS, R1 S, RM, and P /SP Zones
Non - residential uses — proposed
standard
Increased reader -board to 65% Of sign area
Electronic
Reader - boards
flags
40 40 40
Increased height
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SOUTH ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
CG Zone — Proposed
vvaii signs on
secondary frontages
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Size and height increased
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Size and height increased
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WEST ELEVATION
Wall signs on
buildings
more than 200 feet
from the street
increased to 9%
SOUTH ELEVATION
Ards
EAST ELEVATION
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Commercial Office Zone
Existing Standards
• 1 Monument Sign Per Street Frontage (2
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• 32 Sq Ft Max
• 6 Ft Tall
• Wall Signage — 4% of Wall Area
• Changeable Image Signage Not Allowed
Commercial Office Zone
Proposed Standards
• Monument Sign May be 8 Ft Tall
• Changeable Image Signage Not Allowed
Other Changes
Motor Vehicle Fuel Price Signs
• 32 Sq Ft Allowed for Fuel Pricing Signs
• Electronic Changeable Copy Allowed
• Current Standard Unclear on Size
Signs, Signs, Signs
Nonconforming
Signs
*Size
*Height
*Location
Proposed Standards
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• Nonconforming signs
- A sign permit for a conforming sign requires all
nonconforming signs to comply
• Requirement deleted
- Type II or Type III land use applications require all
signs to comply
• Type 11 requirement deleted
Electronic Changing -Image Signs
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Electronic Changing -Image Signs
Proposed Standards
• Combined Signage Allows Increased Size in
Commercial Zones (Not Allowed in CO Zone)
• Establish Longer Hold Time (4, 8 & 20
Seconds) &Brightness Standards
• Allowed for Nonresidential Uses in
Residential Zones
- Increased Size (65% of total sign area)
Pole Signs — Existing Standards
- Only Allowed in the CG Zone (I -5, Hwy 214,
99E)
- Differing Height and Area Depending Upon
Property Frontage
Pole Signs - Proposed Standards
- Non - interchange Areas - Taller Standardized
Height (20 ft)
- I -5 /Hwy 214 Interchange - Taller (45 Ft) and
Larger (200 - 850 Sq Ft Depending on Street
Frontage)
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Pole Signs CG Zon
VVEST ELEvATION
Pole signs permitted in Freeway Overlay
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45 ft high and 06 sq ft, 300-600 ft of frontage
EAST ELEVATION
Pole Signs CG zon
Pole signs permitted in Freeway Overlay
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45 ft high and �b6 s q ft, 600 -1,000 ft of frontage
EAST ELEVATION
Pole Signs CG zon
VVEST ELEVATION
Pole signs permitted in Freeway Overlay
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EAST ELEVATION
Pole Signs CG Zon
VVEST ELEVATION
Pole signs permitted in Freeway Overlay
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45 ft high and 856 V sq ft, 1,200 ft or more of frontage
EAST ELEVATION
Signs —Other Changes
• Tables by Zone
• Text — Simplified
• Content - neutral Language
• Type 11 Application for Pole Signs Now Type
Signs —Other Changes
• A -frame Signs — Subject to Permitting
• Sign Identification Program
- Temporary signs (Banners and A- frame)
• Education Program
- Handouts
• Abandoned Sign Notification Program
Process
City Council
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Public �/
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Publi I \ Public
Focus Committee
Business Business Community Business
Community Community
Proposed Revisions
• Questions?