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19-141 04/08/2019
CITY COUNCIL ACTION
Council Meeting Date: April 8, 2019
Item No: 19-141
Responsible Dept: Legal
Action Requested: Ordinance Map/Lot: 41-71
Amending Chapter 231, Public Parks, Section 231-8, to Allow for Entrance sign for the University of Maine
Museum of Art
Summary
This will amend Chapter 231, Section 8 of the City's ordinance regarding signs in public parks to allow for the
University of Maine Museum of Art to have a sign in Hannibal Hamlin Mall.
The Museum of Art's primary entrance is via a pedestrian bridge across the Kenduskeag Stream. The Museum
of Art has requested permission for a sign to be erected at the entrance to the bridge. The City Code does
allow some signage in City Parks but needs to be amended to allow the Museum to have a sign.
Committee Action
Committee: Government Operations Committee
Action:
Staff Comments & Approvals
Meeting Date: March 18, 2019
For:
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City Manager City Solicitor
Introduced for: First Reading and Referral
Against:
Finance Director
CITY COUNCIL ORDINANCE
Date: April 8, 2019
Assigned to Councilor: Weston
19-141 04/08/2019
ORDINANCE, Amending Chapter 231, Public Parks, Section 231-8, to Allow for Entrance sign for the
University of Maine Museum of Art
WHEREAS, the University of Maine Museum of Art's primary entrance is via a pedestrian bridge across the
Kenduskeag Stream from Hannibal Hamlin Mall, a City Park; and
WHEREAS, The Museum of Art has requested permission for a sign to be erected at the entrance to the bridge;
and
WHEREAS, the Code of the City of Bangor does allow some signage in City Parks; and
WHEREAS, given the unique circumstances of the Museum of Art connection to property via a bridge over the
Kenduskeag Stream abutting a City Park it is appropriate to amend the City Code to allow for an exception for
a sign.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BANGOR AS FOLLOWS, THAT
Chapter 231 of the Code of the City of Bangor is amended as follows:
§231-8
Except in conjunction with supervised activities under the general control and supervision of the Director and in
particular activities conducted at Bass Park, no person in a park shall:
A. Unchanged.
B. Unchanged.
C. Unchanged.
D. Exceptions. In Hannibal Hamlin Mall (Tax Map 41, Lot 71, one sign erected on behalf of the University of
Maine Museum of Art at its entrance not to exceed three feet in width, three feet in depth, or eight feet in
height and subject to design review and approval by the Director of Parks and Recreation, Director of
Community and Economic Development, and City Manager, 5sponsorship signs erected by the City of Bangor in
accordance with Chapter 260, §260-13F, and temporary sidewalk (sandwich board) signs and sidewalk
merchandise displays in West Market Square permitted under §260-9 and 260-9.1, respectively, shall not be
deemed a violation of this section.
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