05-A Extending moratorium for signs.

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DRAFT ORDINANCE NO. f:attomeylordworklcurrentlExtending Billboard Moratorium 2007 August 20, 2007 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS, EXTENDING MORATORIUM ON THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS FOR THE ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION, AND PLACEMENT OF BILLBOARDS, ELECTRONIC SIGNS, AND OFF-PREMISES SIGNS WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS AS ENACTED BY ORDINANCE NO. 2007-010, FOR ONE HUNDRED TWENTY (120) DAYS; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, on May 14, 2007, the City Council of the City of Paris enacted Ordinance No. 2007-010, imposing a one hundred twenty (120) day moratorium on the issuance of permits for the erection, construction, reconstruction, and placement of billboards, electronic signs, and off-premises signs within the city limits of the City of Paris, Texas; and, WHEREAS, due to the fact that the City Council has recently hired a new City Manager for the City of Paris and that the Council has recently created a Code Enforcement Task Force to review and study all issues that impact code enforcement and appearance of the City, the Council believes that it would be in the best interest of the City of Paris and its citizens to extend the moratorium for 120 more days to allow the Code Enforcement Task Force and the new City Manager an opportunity to review and study proposed amendments to the sign ordinance; and, WHEREAS, the City Council finds and determines that the sign regulations of the City of Paris, as contained in Chapter 28 of the Code of Ordinances as they relate to the erection, construction, and placement of billboards and other off-premise signs were originally codified in 1970 and have not been substantially reviewed or revised since 1986; and, WHEREAS, due to continuing growth and development in the City of Paris, changes in federal and state laws applicable to sign regulations and changes in the advertising and sign industry, the City Council has determined that it is necessary to review, study, revise and update the City's sign regulations as they apply to billboards, electronic signs and off-premises signs; and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS: Section 1. That the findings set out in the preamble to this ordinance are hereby in all things approved.