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RESOLUTION NO. 90-202
A RESOLUTION:
PRESENTED August 8, 1990
ADOPTED August 8, 1990
AUTHORIZING TEMPORARY PARKING DIRECTIONAL SIGNAGE IN THE
DOWNTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT
WHEREAS, this Council recognizes that the construction of the municipal parking structure
downtown has and will continue to adversely affect downtown business during the approximate 10-11
month construction period; and
WHEREAS, the efforts of this government to establish a temporary 141-space parking facility only
one block from Loudoun Street as well as additional on-street parking, in conjunction with the efforts
of the private sector, including the Loudoun Times-Mirror's offer of its 145-space lot on Loudoun Street
during the evening and week-ends at no cost to the public, have ensured convenient and reasonably
priced parking will be available to serve our historic district during this period; and
WHEREAS, it is also a government and business responsibility to appropriately advertise and direct
motorists' to the available downtown parking in Leesburg; and
WHEREAS, some merchants have requested the town consider permitting small temporary portable
signs to help direct downtown visitors to available parking; and
WHEREAS, this Council seeks to establish a temporary procedure to permit businesses to display
parking directional signs, which do not conform with the town's sign regulations and zoning ordinance:
THEREFORE, RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Leesburg in Virginia as follows:
SECTION I. Temporary portable signs may be erected within the commercial zones of the Old and
Historic District to direct the public to convenient parking locations upon the approval of the sign by
the zoning administrator. Temporary sign permit program may be withdrawn at any time by the
Council. Requirements for temporary sign permits are as follows:
1. Pedestrian or vehicular traffic will not be impeded, however, temporary signs within
the public right-of-way are approvable.
2. Sign copy will be limited to the name of the establishment(s) and directions to
parking areas.
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RESOLUTION - AUTHORIZING TEMPORARY PARKING DIRECTIONAL SIGNAGE
3. The size of the sign should not exceed 12 square feet.
SECTION Il. An temporary parking directional sign permits issued under the authority of this
resolution shall expire and the signs removed by the owner at the time the municipal paririno~ facility
is complete and open to the public.
PASSED this 8 r h day of
August 7990.
Robert E. Sevila, Mayor
Town of Leesburg
ATTEST:
Clerk of Co~
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