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SUMMARY /RECOMMENDATIONS If the City is interested in altering its freestanding Sign Ordinance regulations, the survey information has indicated two primary areas of issues. Each is discussed below. FREESTANDING SIGNS FOR SEPARATE BUILDINGS o Most communities allow freestanding businesses in shopping centers to have an additional freestanding sign. Although most cities utilize the language of separate parcels, we believe this is a meaningless distinction and is meant to refer to separate buildings. Rather than allow these signs outright, some communities restrict them by size, height, setback, type of street, or type (such as requiring "monument" style signs). RELATING SHOPPING CENTER IDENTIFICATION SIGNS TO FRONTAGE o Many communities relate the number of allowable shopping center identification signs to the number of street frontages. Little Canada currently allows on such sign with a second allowed by Conditional Use Permit. One problem is that there are few conditions listed as criteria for approval. The City may wish to restructure this section and list the criteria more specifically. Some possible suggestions would include: - Multiple occupancy commercial structures only. - Shopping center identification only (allow wall or marquee signage for individual business identification), or up to 33 percent of such identification signs for directory information. - One sign per frontage only - only one sign may be located within five feet of any street right -of -way. Any additional shopping center identification signs allowed must be at least forty feet from that right -of- way. (Forty feet is the B -3 building setback.) - Consider a minimum total street frontage to allow a second sign, to avoid a two business building which occupies a smaller corner lot qualifying for two signs. 3 Page 114