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8. STAFF REPORT To: Mayor, City Council Report No.: Mike Mornson, City Manager From: Kith Moore -Sykes, Assistant City Manager Date: May 26, 2009 Subject: Text Amendment to Title XV, Section 155 Signs; Allowing Temporary Signs to be Posted on Fences in the Recreational Open Space Athletic Outfields (first reading) Requested. Action: First Reading: Consider Proposed Text Amendment to Section 155, Sign Ordinance; to Allow Temporary Signs to be Posted on Fences in the Recreational Open Space athletic outfields. Date Application Received: Property Address: Zoning District: 60 -Day Expires: Waiver Letter Rec,�uired: March 25, 2009 3303 — 33`1 Avenue NE Recreational/ Open Space n/a N/A Yes Date Sent; No Future Action: Council Action, after three (3) readings of the proposed language amendment to allow temporary signs posted on the outfield fence of Palm Field. Background: Mr. Eric Brever, Esq., representative for the ISD 282 and St. Anthony Baseball Association, has appeared before the Planning Commission in a public hearing requesting that the City's Ordinance be amended to allow the School District 282 to be able to post temporary commercial signs on the outfield fences in Palm Field. The Planning Comt-fission tabled the public hearing to May 19, 2009. Mr. Brevet also attended the May 19, 2009 Planning Commission meeting. Staff received a written request dated March 25, 2009 from the Superintendent of Schools, asking that the City consider amending the language of Title XV, Section 155, Signs (formerly Chapter 14) " ... to allow for the installation of signs with advertising on the varsity baseball field as a means to generate income for field improvements" (letter dated March 4, 2009, Rod Thompson, Superintendent of Schools) . This request would also require consideration of amending the following Sections: Section 155.21 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS, (D) Placement of Signs, which states that, "No sign, or attachment to it, may be erected, placed or maintained by any person on rocks, fences, or trees, not in such a manner as to interfere with any electric lights, power, telephone or telegraph wires, or the supports thereof"; Section 155.22 PROHIBITED SIGNS, (B)(13) Signs Affixed Utility Poles and Fences., Signs painted, attached, or in any other manner affixed to trees, rocks, or similar natural surfaces, or attached to utility poles, bridges, towers, fences or similar public structures; and staff Palm Field Ord Text Amendment