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MINUTES PLANNING COMMISSION MAY 12, 2005 AMENDMENT The Commission reviewed proposed amendments to the Zoning TO THE code relative to banners, real estate signs, and garage sale signs. ZONING CODE - The Planner reviewed the various amendments proposed in the SIGNS Code Enforcement Officer's report dated May 5~h. The first amendment relates to constructions signs and increases the size from 50 square feet to 64 square feet. The Commission agreed with the Code Enforcement Officer's recommendation. The next change related to on-site real estate signs and rental signs changing the number of days from 14 to 7 that these sign can be displayed once a property has been sold or leased. The amendment also increases the size of residential real estate signs from 4 square feet to 6 square feet. Another change provides for nonresidential real estate signs and rental signs to be 1 square foot of sign area for each 1,000 square feet of lot area up to a maximum of 64 square feet. The Commission agreed with these amendments. The next change related to off-site residential real estate signs and allows for houses for sale by owner to have off-site open house signs with specific conditions. The Commission agreed with this recommendation. The next change added a provision to allow garage sale signs. The Commission reviewed this recommendation and indicated thaC this provision should be expanded to allow for estate sale signs in addition to garage sale signs. The Commission further noted that the provision should specifically reference that these are "off premise" signs. With those changes, the Commission agreed with the amendment proposed. The final change relates to advertising/promotional banners and changes the classification from "Permitted Sign" to "Temporary Sign" requiring a permit. Other changes related to banners as outlined in the Code Enforcement Officer's report are as follows: o Banners must be mounted on the building up to but no higher Chan the peek of the roof, or between the poles of an existing, double post pylon sign; o Banners can be no more than 32 square feet in size; o Banners shall only advertise a specific promotional event with a defined time period; o Maintenance standards for banners and pennants; o Banners and pennants cannot encroach into the public right-of-way. The Planner noted that one impact of these changes is that the Code allows for a maximum of 3 temporary sign licenses per year for a combined total of 60 days. As proposed, banners would count against this allocated 11-