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D RAFT <br />Attorney\ordwork\current\Billboard & Temp Signs Ord 2008 <br />ORDINANCE N0. <br />AN ORDIIVAIVCE OF THE CITY COUIITCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS, <br />AMENDING CHAPTER 28, SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS, OF THE CODE OF <br />ORDINAIVCES OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS; PROVIDING FOR REVISED A1VD <br />EXPANDED DEFINITIONS; PROVIDING FOR REGULATION AND PERMITTING <br />OF BILLBOARDS, OFF-PREMISE AND TEMPORARY SIGNS; SIGN PLACEMENT <br />LOCATIONS; PROVIDING REVISED SIZE SPACING REGULATIONS; PROVIDING <br />A PROCEDURE FOR REMOVING NON-CONFORMING, ABANDONED, OBSOLETE, <br />NUISANCE, OR OTHERWISE UNLAWFUL SIGNS; PROVIDING AN APPEAL, <br />VARIANCE AND SPECIAL EXCEPTION PROCESS TO PERMITTING <br />REQUIREMENTS; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO <br />THE SUBJECT; PROVIDING A REPEALER CLAUSE, A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, A <br />SAVINGS CLAUSE, A PENALTY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. <br />WHEREAS, in August, 2007, the City Council of the City of Paris created the Code <br />Enforcement Task Force to review and study proposed ordinances and regulations of the City of <br />Paris addressing health, safery and beautification issues within the City of Paris; and, <br />WHEREAS, the City Council directed the Code Enforcement Task Force to study and <br />consider proposed amendments to the Sign Ordinance including regulations applicable to <br />billboards, off-premises and temporary signs. The Task Force has completed its review of the <br />City's sign regulations and has recommended numerous revisions thereto. <br />WHEREAS, the City Council having reviewed the recommendations of the Task Force for <br />amending a new Chapter 28, Signs and Billboards, of the City Code of Ordinances hereby finds <br />and determines that the changes recommended below are in the best interest of the City of Paris <br />and its citizens and should be adopted. <br />NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, <br />PARIS, TEXAS: <br />Section 1. That the findings set out in the preamble to this ordinance are hereby in all <br />things approved. <br />Section 2. That Chapter 28, Signs and Billboards of the Code of Ordinances of the City of <br />Paris, Texas, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read in its entirety as follows: <br />Page 1 of 36 <br />M 000095 <br />