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CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM BRIEFING SHEET <br />Submittal Date: <br />Originating Department: <br />Presented By: <br />Agenda Item No.: <br />7/23/08 <br />Code Enforcement Task <br />Lisa A. Wright, Director of <br />Council Date: <br />Force <br />Community Development <br />13. <br />7/28/08 <br />RECOMMENDED MOTION: <br />Motion to approve an ordinance amending Chapter 28, Signs and Billboards, of the Code <br />of Ordinances of the City of Paris, Texas; providing for revised and expanded definitions; <br />providing for regulation and permitting of billboards, off-premise and temporary signs; <br />sign placement locations; providing revised size and spacing regulations; providing a <br />procedure for removing non-conforming, abandoned, obsolete, nuisance, or otherwise <br />unlawful signs; providing an appeal, variance and special exception process to permitting <br />requirements <br />POLICY ISSUE(S): <br />Ordinance <br />BACKGROUND: <br />On April 22, May 6, and May 20, 2008, the City Council and the Task Force on Code <br />Enforcement conducted joint work sessions to consider revisions to the City's Sign <br />Ordinance. As a result of those work sessions, an ordinance has been developed that <br />reflects the changes recommended by the Task Force. <br />Recommended changes include new regulations for billboards and other off-premise <br />signs, the addition of regulations for alternative kinds of signs which are becoming more <br />regularly used but which have not previously been included in the sign ordinance, and the <br />addition of provisions regulating temporary signs. <br />BOARD/COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: <br />The City Council Task Force on Code Enforcement, in a joint work session with the City Council, has <br />recommended revisions to the City's Sign Ordinance. <br />EXHIBITS: <br />Ordinance <br />ACTION: <br />BUDGET INFO: <br />❑ Financial Report ❑ Minute Order <br />Expense <br />$ <br />❑ Department Report ❑ Resolution <br />Budgeted Amt. <br />$ <br />❑ Presentation Z Ordinance <br />y'I'D Actual <br />$ <br />❑ Public Hearing ❑ Other <br />Acct. Name <br />Acct. Number <br />FISCAL NOTES: <br />REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY: <br />~ Administration Z City Clerk Z Community Development ❑ EMS/IT ❑ Finance ❑ Fire <br />❑ Municipal Court Z Legal ❑ Library ❑ Police ❑ Eng./Public Works ❑ Utiliries <br />City of Paris - 0 U 0 0 9 4 Revised 2/04/08 <br />