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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes February 18, 2020 Page 5 City Planner Grittman stated that the intent of this discussion is to determine if the City should 1 consider adopting specific regulations relating to temporary signage, and if so, what types of 2 regulations would be in keeping with the community’s overall character and expectations. 3 4 City Planner Grittman reviewed the information with the Planning Commission. 5 6 Commissioner Morita asked if right now any temporary signage in St. Anthony would be 7 illegal. City Planner Grittman indicated that was correct because there is no provision for 8 temporary signage in the City Code. 9 10 Commissioner Morita asked if the only reason this item has come up is because somebody 11 complained about this site and then the owner of the site mentioned everywhere else is doing 12 it as well. City Planner Grittman indicated that was correct. Once there is a complaint the 13 City Staff needs to follow up on that complaint. Instead of going out and ticketing everybody 14 staff wanted to raise the question if regulations should be put in place that will allow some of 15 this before heading in that direction. 16 17 Commissioner Morita asked in front of the retailers that are posting for rent available sites, 18 their only legal way of doing this is having a six-foot permanent sign. City Planner Grittman 19 explained that or it could be a part of their permanent signage. The apartment buildings that 20 have for lease banners up are also allowed some permanent signage beyond six square feet. 21 Leasing information could be placed on that allowed sign. There are options. 22 23 Commissioner Neumann proposed the City actually does what has been done historically in 24 the past which is to do a workshop specifically for this in light of the fact that this whole site 25 in itself, she did not know the legal stuff and did not personally feel comfortable having this 26 discussion with the limited time this evening and she would prefer staff collect whatever is 27 needed and then have a workshop on this discussion. 28 29 Commissioner Payne asked if the permanent sign defined in the Code. He suggested on a 30 commercial property if it has a permanent fixed sign that is smaller than the maximum 31 allowed could it go up to whatever the maximum allowed would be. No matter if temporary, 32 if combined with the permanent one would then fit within the requirements. City Planner 33 Grittman explained this could not be done. Most of the properties not only have a maximum 34 square footage but there is also a maximum number of signs allowed and materials of the code 35 indicate it needs to be a permanent structure. 36 37 Commissioner Rude asked if this would be the last input the Commission would have on this 38 topic. City Planner Grittman thought this would stand in for the workshop Commissioner 39 Neumann was referring to but this discussion would be brought back to the Commission with 40 some Code language at the next Commission meeting with further discussion for crafting the 41 Code at that meeting. He indicated he would be happy to agree with any Commission 42 requests. 43 44 Commissioner Rude explained he agreed with Commissioner Neumann that this topic does 45 require some discussion but was unsure if it should be done now or at a workshop. 46