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Planning & Zoning Board <br />October 13, 2004 <br />Page 14 <br />Mr. Hyden stated Mr. Laden's point was a good one and he believed the simpler the <br />better. <br />Mr. Bengtson stated the Board could go with this type of restriction, but many Cities had <br />temporary sign ordinances. <br />Mr. Laden stated they could still restrict banners. <br />Mr. Pogalz believed this needed to be more refined and there needed to be a few more <br />layers. He stated he did not believe a temporary sign was a temporary sign and there <br />were different levels to it which they needed to look at. <br />Mr. Hyden asked how should they approach this. <br />Mr. Tralle noted if they took two signs a meeting, it would take them 5 months to get <br />through this. <br />Mr. Pogalz indicated the Cities they had looked at previously, appeared to have layers to <br />their sign ordinance. Mr. Bengtson stated a lot of City codes had signage broken down. <br />Mr. Root stated if they broke it down too much, it would be difficult to enforce. Mr. <br />Pogalz believed this would be difficult to enforce anyway. <br />Mr. Tralle asked if City staff had started enforcing the sign ordinance. Mr. Bengtson <br />replied City staff would be working on this, but they were short staffed last month due to <br />vacations. <br />Mr. Tralle noted political signs superceded anything the City put up because the State <br />Statutes regulated them. Mr. Bengtson replied that was correct and the Board would not <br />need to deal with political signs. <br />Mr. Tralle asked if those Statutes would give them any guidelines for temporary signage. <br />Mr. Bengtson replied the Statutes were not very specific and therefore would probably <br />not be useful for them to look at. However, he would gather the Statute information for <br />the Board meeting next month for the Boardmembers to review. <br />Chair Rafferty asked if there was one thing they could look at tonight and make a <br />determination. <br />Mr. Tralle suggested the look at five signs this month and five signs next month. <br />Chair Rafferty stated they needed to find a way to move forward, but he recommended <br />they only go to 10:30 p.m. for this meeting. He also recommended they only discuss the <br />sign issue until 10:30 p.m. for future meetings. <br />Mr. Laden asked if they should make any distinction between commercial and residential <br />property. Mr. Bengston replied depending on the type of sign, it could be used on either <br />DRAFT MINUTES <br />