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Home My WebLink About6.01 Sign Ordinance Amendment • CITY OF DUBLIN AGENDA STATEMENT City Council Meeting Date: January 26, 1987 SUBJECT: Public Hearing: PA 86-129 Sign Ordinance • Amendment EXHIBITS ATTACHED: Exhibit A: Ordinance Amending Sign Ordinance allowing two Freestanding Signs on • large parcels • RECOMMENDATION: �/vv 1) Open public hearing. vv "jjll 2) Receive Staff presentation. 3) Receive public testimony. T-'4— 4) Close public hearing and deliberate. 5) Waive second reading and adopt Ordinance ,Amending City Zoning Ordinance relating to Sign Ordinance. FINANCIAL STATEMENT: None. DESCRIPTION: On January 12, 1987, the City Council introduced an Ordinance amending the City's Sign Ordinance and adopted a Resolution approving the associated. Negative Declaration. The Ordinance proposes to amend the City's existing Sign Ordinance relating to: 1) allowing two Freestanding Signs on large parcels, 2) Special Easement Signs, 3) Service Station Display and Price Signs, 4) Identification Signs, 5) Low Profile Signs, 6) Time/Temperature Signs and Electronic Readerboard Signs, 7) Shopping Center Master Identification Signs, and 8) reformatting and renumbering the Ordinance to enhance its readability. Staff recommends that the City Council waive the second reading and adopt the Ordinance amending the Zoning Ordinance regarding Signs. • • ITEM NO. '`) COPIES TO: PA File 86-129 • • :_t_ 1?„ 4_, • • • •saTmaaa asn TEuoTaTpuoO 2uiaTnbau ' - su2TS (2 99•L8-8 uoTgoaS ausnsand 089-I ao osc-I 04 quaOOCpE • paaEOoL ezis uT aaasea2 ao sea3E anog go sTeoxed aog uozpdeoxe uE 144TM Taoaed aad paao.imaad eq Tregs u2Ts 2u•tpuoaseaa3 euo 1CZup . 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Except Freestanding Signs located on parcels, or collec- tions of parcels under common ownership and use, four acres or greater in size, or single-use parcels one-and one-half acres or greater in size, may utilize signs up to a maximum height of thirty-five (35) feet, subject to , approval of a Conditional Use Permit pursuant to Sections 8-87.66 d) and 8-94.0; C) All Freestanding Signs with an overhang extending over a driveway, alley, or other vehicular access shall have a minimum clearance of fourteen (14) feet. 3) Sign Area A) Maximum sign area shall not exceed thirty (30) square feet for double-faced signs or fifteen (15) square feet for single-faced signs when said sign is located on a street frontage property line; B) Maximum sign area may be increased five (5) square feet for each one (1) foot the sign is set back from the nearest street frontage, not to exceed one hundred and fifty (150) square feet for a single faced sign or three hundred (300) square feet for a double faced sign; C) The maximum sign area for double-faced signs shall be twice the amount permitted for single-faced signs, with the sign surface area split equally between the two sides of the sign pursuant to the maximum permitted area (Section 8-87.34 b) 3) A) ; D) The area of a Service Station Display Sign, when combined with a Service Station Price Sign (see Sections 8-87.35 and 8-87.50 k)) , may exceed the height-area-setback regulations established in Sections 8-87.34 b) 2) and 3) by a maximum of thirty-two (32) square feet. -2- r M 4) Sign Proportion A) Freestanding Signs shall be proportionately dimensioned with the sign face width not to exceed one-half the sign's total height and the sign face height not to exceed three-tenths the sign's total height. The two dimensions may be interchangable (sign proportion = 0.3 ht. x 0.5 ht.) . Minor adjustments in sign proportions consistent with the purpose and intent of this Ordinance may be granted subject to Site Development Review approval by the Planning Director." Section 4. That Section 8-87.50 k) Permitted Signs - Service Station Price Sign, of the Dublin Zoning Ordinance is hereby amended to read as follows: "k) Service Station Price Signs indicating gasoline prices and available services when accessory to an existing service station. One (1) Price Sign is permitted along each street frontage to a maximum of - two (2) Price Signs. Each Price Sign may have a maximum single- faced area of sixteen (16) square feet, or a maximum double-faced area of thirty-two (32) square feet. A Price Sign may be attached to and made part of Service Station Sign Display Structure pursuant to Section 8-87.34 b) 3) D) ." Section 5. That Section 8-87.66 e) and f) Signs Requiring Conditional Use Permits, of the Dublin Zoning Ordinance is hereby amended to read as follows: "e)r Time/Temperature Signs, including Electronic Readerboards, Business Bulletin Boards, and other Changable Copy Signs on which the copy is manually or electrically changed, when used to promote items of general interest to the community such as time, temperature, and/or date. " "f) Special Easement Signs, used as part of. the permanent signage to designate, identify, or indicate the name(s) or business(es) of the owner or occupant of a premises in the immediate vicinity of the parcel upon which the sign is located. The premises said sign is designed to advertise must be located on a parcel of land without direct access or frontage on an improved public right-of-way. Said properties must be interconnected by a traversable vehicular roadway which is subject to a non-revocable, non-exclusive recorded access easement. Said signs may also be utilized to advertise the business(es) conducted, service(s) available or rendered, or the goods procured, sold, or available for sale upon the referenced nearby premises. " Section 6. That Section 8-87.66 g) Signs Requiring Conditional Use Permits, of the Dublin Zoning Ordinance is hereby added to read as follows: "g) Two Freestanding Signs on parcels of four acres or greater in size located adjacent to I-580 or I-680. Said Freestanding Signs shall be located on separate frontages. For the purpose of said Free- standing Signs, the property line adjacent to I-580 or I-680 shall be considered a street frontage. Said signs shall comply with location, height, sign area and sign proportions established in Section 8-87.34 b) . " Section 7. That Sections 8-87.67 a) and d) Signs Requiring Administrative Conditional Use Permits, of the Dublin Zoning Ordinance are hereby amended to read as follows: "a) One Identification Sign in any District, when used to designate the name, or the name and use, of a multi-family residential use, public building, to inform the public as to the use of a lawful parking area, recreation area, or other open use permitted in the District. Identification Signs shall not exceed a maximum area of twenty-four 24 square feet, unless a greater area is approved through the Administrative Conditional Use Permit process. The height of Identification Signs shall be as set forth in Section 8-60.55. " -3- . "d) Temporary Off-site Sale or Lease Signs which are intended for use solely as a notice of an offering for sale, lease, or rental of a parcel, structure or establishment of a premises in the immediate vicinity of the premises upon which the sign is located, where said . premises is located on a parcel of land without direct access or frontage on an improved public right-of-way, and where said properties are interconnected by a traversable vehicular roadway which is subject to a non-revocable, non-exclusive recorded access • easement." Section 8. That Sections 8-87.60 Permit Procedures, 8-87.61 Compliance - Sign Permit Application Required, 8-87.62 Application - Contents, 8-87.63 Application Approval, 8-87.64 Design Criteria, 8-87.65 Variance Procedure, 8-87.66 Signs Requiring Conditional Use Permits, and 8-87.67 Signs Requiring Administrative Conditional Use Permits are hereby renumbered as follows: Section 8-87.66 renumbered to 8-87.60 Section 8-87.67 renumbered to 8-87.61 Section 8-87.60 renumbered to 8-87.62 Section 8-87.61 renumbered to 8-87.63 Section 8-87.62 renumbered to 8-87.64 Section 8-87.63 renumbered to 8-87.65 Section 8-87.64 renumbered to 8-87.66 Section 8-87.65 renumbered to 8-87.67 Section 9. If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance, or any part thereof, is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance shall not be affected thereby. Section 10. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force thirty (30) days from and after the date of its passage. The City Clerk of the City of Dublin shall cause this Ordinance to be posted in at least three (3) public places in the City of Dublin in accordance with Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of California. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Dublin on this day of , 1987, by the following votes: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk -4-