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Home My Public Portal AboutORD14983 BILL NO. 2012-32 SPONSORED BY COUNCILMAN Scrivner ORDINANCE NO. I � 0� AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 3, ADVERTISING AND SIGNS, OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, PERTAINING TO LARGE AREA COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT SIGNS. BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Chapter 3 (Advertising and Signs), Section 4 (On-Premise Signs), Subsection E, of the Code of the City of Jefferson is amended as follows: E. Large Area Commercial Developments. Additienal Sigens in G—O, C 1&C -2 dis;ets, In the C-O, C-1, C-2 districts, the City Administrator, or his designee, may grant special permission for a sign or signs identifying tenants or businesses within a Large Area Commercial Development, which meets the requirements of this section. 1. For purposes of Section 3-41. "Large Area Commercial Development" (or LACD) shall mean an aggregate premises consisting of one or more privately owned premises, that are contiguous, exclusive of right way, and that in the aggregate consisting of at least 20 acres of property zoned C-Q C-1, or C-2, and the boundaries of which consist of all land within a final subdivision plat approved by the City Council or a preliminary subdivision plat approved by the Planning Commission. 2. Location Requirements. a. The sign shall be located on property contained within the LACD. b. The property upon which the LACD identification sign is to be located must be owned by a single person or entity. Any such sign may not be located on commonly owned property. mt,a r ACID .a t�a,.ation hall b located a:a^^ t to ^ .:a,:^ lam feet of s 6r,,..-vrrc-�.v.. "'e" n-o�—tv°aic�a 7vcc "'hioulgr sntinnue off of an^ 'al street:°-cntthe LACD. CD c d. Minimum Separation Distance. For LACD signs located along Missouri Boulevard frontage, no LACD identification sign may be located within 100 feet, as measured along the street frontage, of another LACD identification sign for the same LACD. For LACD signs not located along Missouri Boulevard frontage,No no LACD identification sign may be located within 1,320 feet, as measured along the street frontage, of another LACD identification sign for the same LACD. 3. The LACD identification sign may include the name and logo of the LACD. 4. The A LACD identification sip shall only include the name and/or logo of tenants or businesses in the LACD. Drafters Note: Deleted text shown as thas. Inserted text shown as thus 5. The LACD identification sign shall meet the following sign area requirements: a. The maximum sign area used to represent a single tenant or business on the LACD identification sign shall be 30 200 square feet. b. The minimum sign area used to represent a single tenant or business on the LACD identification sign shall be 10 square feet. C. Total sign area on the LACD identification sign devoted to tenants or businesses shall be 280 400 square feet or less. d. In addition to the sign area devoted to tenants or businesses, the name and logo of the LACD shall be limited to a maximum of 50 square feet of sign area. e. Sign area used for identifying individual businesses or tenants within the LACD shall be subtracted from the available sign area permitted to the business or tenant on the property within the LACD that they are located. In the event that the business or tenant has utilized the entirety of their available sign area at their property location, they shall not be granted space on the LACD identification sign. 6. All tenants or business represented on the LACD identification sign shall be current occupants within the LACD. 7. A signage plan for the LACD shall be submitted and must be approved by the City Administrator or designee. Such signage plan shall include: a. The name, address and contact information of the property owner of the parcel upon which the LACD identification sign is to be located, the registered agent of the property owner if any, and the party responsible for the operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement of the LACD identification sign if different than the identified property owner. If any said information changes, it shall be a requirement of said plan that the building official be notified within 10 days of any such change. b. A diagram showing the exterior boundaries of the LACD and location of the LACD identification sign. C. A breakdown of existing signage and allowable sign area on each of the properties within the LACD, including signage adjustments to account for allowed space on the LACD identification sign. d. An allocation of the sign area on the LACD identification sign to the various properties and/or businesses within the LACD. C. Written approval of the signage plan and allocation of sign area on the LACD identification sign from each of the property owners within the LACD or copies of filed restrictions and covenants, executed contracts, or similar legal documents in place for all of the properties within the LACD outlining the distribution of signage area or identifying the responsible party for decisions regarding distribution of signage area on the LACD identification sign. f. Any amendments to a LACD identification signage plan must be approved by the City Administrator or designee and must be approved by all property owners within the LACD or approved by the responsible party for decisions regarding amendments to the signage plan as outlined in filed restrictions and covenants, executed contracts, or similar legal documents in place for all of the properties within the LACD. 8. All signage displayed on the LACD sign shall conform with the approved signage plan. 9. Any sign which fails to conform at any time with any provisions of Section 34.1 E or the approved signage plan shall be removed at the cost of the property owner upon whose property the LACD identification sign is located. 10. For the purposes of this section, an individual parcel may not be located within more than one Drafters Note: Deleted text shown as t4us. Inserted text shown as thus LACD. In the event that a parcel is removed from a LACD or redesignated as being within a different LACD, any signage representing individual tenants or businesses located on said parcel shall be removed from the applicable LACD identification sign. 11. No variance shall be granted to any provision related of hapte.�-,-&e "^Section 3A.E. Large Area Commercial Developments. Section 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval. �7 Passed: 0 ( � � Approved: Presiding Offi Mayor (ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM: Al" //1114! - City Clerk City Counsefor Drafters Note: Deleted text shown as thus, Inserted text shown as thus