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• • AGENDA ITEM V A STAFF ORIGINATOR: Jeff Smyser P & Z MEETING DATE: March 12, 2008 TOPIC: CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: Sign Ordinance Amendments BACKGROUND The P & Z opened the public hearing on February 13 and continued it. Staff discussed issues with the City Attorney, as directed by the P & Z, and made some adjustments to the draft ordinance. Those elements are shaded in this draft. In cooperation with the City Attorney, staff has prepared a draft to amend the ordinance to address "dynamic display" signs and other issues. Dynamic display signs are signs with moving or changing images. These are being seen more and more around the Metro Area on billboards on freeways. As long as the sign ordinance was being amended in some major ways to address dynamic signs, we thought we might as well clarify other issues as well. The City last amended its sign ordinance in 2005 to address temporary signs the current proposal will be the first major overhaul of the sign ordinance in many years: probably since 1997. The City adopted a moratorium on dynamic display signs in April 2007. The one -year moratorium expires on April 18, 2008. Staff's goal is to discuss the proposed amendments and get direction from the Board for any changes. We hope to bring the ordinance amendments to the City Council on March 24 for a first reading. ANALYSIS The revised draft includes some shaded passages to draw P & Z attention to the points discussed at the last meeting as needing some clarification. • The definitions of "banner" and "flag" have been refined to distinguish a flag from a banner (Sec. II., pages 3 & 4). • The definition of "sign" excludes road signs so that electric road construction signs • with changing messages are not prohibited as dynamic display signs (Sec. II., page 5).