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MINUTES OF THE SIGN ORDINANCE STUDY COMMITTEE June 13, 1991 The Sign Ordinance Study Committee met in special session, Thursday, June 13, 1991, 6:00 P. M., City Council Chamber, City Hall, Paris, Texas. Chairman Jim Bell called the meeting to order with the following members present: Councilman Billy Joe Burnett, and Councilwoman Millie Ingram. Also present was City Attorney, T. K. Haynes, Director of Community Development, Joe McCollum, and City Clerk, Mattie Cunningham. Chairman Bell announced the purpose of the meeting was discussion of Chapter 28, Signs and Billboards, of the Code of Ordinance. Chairman Bell went over the previous recommendations made by the Committee as follows: Amend the present Sign Ordinance to grandfather all nonconforming signs prior to July 1, 1986, instructing the City Attorney to write the amendment in clauses that will not place the City in jeopardy of having to purchase those nonconforming signs if City require right -of -way later. Torpedo signs to be limited to 30 day use, with a $50.00 permit fee, nonprofit organizations being exempted for no more than 30 days per event, two events a year, thereafter they would have to pay the fee, and they would still be required to have a permit, if lights are required, the sign would have to meet the electrical code. Restricting all Billboard signs to all metal construction. Chairman Bell told City Attorney Haynes, since he was not present at the last Committee meeting, the Committee had the above recommendations, and the Committee needed his advise as to how best to take these recommendations to the Council implemented. The Committee discussed the recommendations with the City Attorney. Chairman Bell said it was the recommendation of the City Manager, that the Committee might want to conduct a public hearing on Item 1, and 2 of the agenda. City Attorney Haynes recommended to the Committee that with the amount of work the Committee plans to do on the Sign Ordinance, they needed to make sure at this time that there was no other parts of the ordinance that they wished to correct. City Attorney read Section 28 -11 Construction of Billboards and ground signs, stating this is where the Committee wanted it to be all metal. Chairman Bell stated this is for Billboards only for the all metal construction, not the ground signs, leave them as is.