HomeMy WebLinkAbout2004-05-10 04-136 ORDINANCEItem NO. 04-136
Date: 5-10-04
Item/subject: Amending the Sign Cade, Chapter 260, § 260-11, Industrial or Commercial Signs
Responsible Department: Legal
The purpose of this amendment is to increase the maximum height of industrial and
commercial park signs [0 25 feet, as Is standard for all other free-standing signs, m allow
such signs to have a maximum sign area of 300 square feet Per side (instead of aggregate),
as is the standard manner of measuring sign area, and to clarity that each let in a subdivision
is entitled to am tenant panel on such signs.
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,YY Assigned to Councilor Sculley May 10, 2004
kv CITY OF BANGOR
(TULE)Ordinance, Amending the Sign Code, Chapter 260, § 260-11, Industrial or
Commercial Signs.
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nor the Sign Code, Chapter 260, § 260-11, Industrial or commercial signs, be amended as follows:
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B. Each.sian authorizM under this section shall be subject to the bellowing conditions:
(1) Each sign shall be ownd by Me City ofBangar, ben the costs for conaWwom installation,
maintenance and removal shall be bmm by «euama ofthe industrial or commercial park.
(2) Signs may be constructed only upon issuance of a permit by Me Code Enhancement Officer, who
shell determine Me conformance of Me sign with existing laws and who shall obtain from Me
City Engineer written approval that Me design and exact lacetion of sign M W pleftsvctw
within arightof wq will not constitute atMic herald. A sign mry be outmost from arightof-
waybythe City should the City document new of Me sign location for mad purposes.
(3) In cases of permits issued after the effctivl date ofthis section, no more than one sign shall bas
located at or near any entrance to any industrial or commercial park.
(4) A sip shall be Iimi1w M 300 adopt Met of sign rsidea
heiahto1p25 Ret.
The bottom
of Me sign farce made sand at looser six and from Me normal ground elevation where, in Me
opinion of Me City Engined, the view from astoppel m at the intemeadion of a driveway or
..road would W obstruselor wood continuum a aniffic hemrd. Wham the view of a taming _
settle is not obstructed, Mere shall be no minimum freight requirement. "a sign shall carry, no
Bashing illumination or moving Parra.
(5) essial or velptial out sin shall firraludethe nameefthe commercial or industrial cark
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Is k) A sign carrying a directory of park occupants must he designed to provide a name space which is
uniform in size, shape, color and letter design for each of the proposed lots in the park. Each lot
shall be limited to one tenant panel sign
(a) Each eemmery W at RdUMF al pad l 5 an 5h al I sale a '41; mesof A a a a I � 9 dead , J
M2) Bach shall
hove a muimum length of 10 feet and hove a maximum height of30 ixhen
IN CM CODXCIL
May 10, 2004
First Reading
Referred to 4anspor[atitov
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C 1Y E9H
ID CITY MUCIL
Hay 24. 2004
Motion Made and seconded
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ovedcilotes sting yea: Allen.
Casheell, D'Hrrico. Farrington,
Gratvlck. Greene, Malley,
Palmer 6 Tremble
Passed
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fTITLE,)Ameading the Sign Gode, Chapter 260
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