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DATE: July 19, 2004
TO: Planning Commission and City Council
FROM: Stephen C. Richardson, Planning Manager
SUBJECT: Request for amendments to the Zoning Ordinance, Sec.
30-28(d), Advertising Signs
FILE: 669-OB
STAFF REPORT
The Planning Manager recommends approval of this request.
Staff has worked with the advertising sign industry to develop new
regulations that would govern advertising signs within the City of
Beaumont and its Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ).
Highlights of the proposed regulations are as follows:
1. All outdoor advertising companies shall provide the City
of Beaumont a complete list of all signs it owns or
maintains within the limits and the Extraterritorial
Jurisdiction (ETJ) of the City of Beaumont. The list shall
include the location, size (area and height) and type of
construction.
2. Any conforming advertising sign that is reconstructed at
the same location shall be the same size or smaller than
the original sign.
3. The total number of signs that exist at the time of the
adoption of this ordinance shall not increase.
4. To replace or relocate one advertising sign with an
advertising at another location, a sign company may
accumulate square footage on a one sq. ft. for one sq.
ft. basis.
5. There will be a one year time period from the time the
original advertising sign is removed to the time that the
replacement sign must be installed.
6. Replacement advertising signs shall only be permitted in
the areas zoned GC-MD, CM, LI and HI.
7. No new advertising signs shall be constructed in the City=s
ETJ with the exception of state and federally controlled
highways.
8. No advertising signs shall be permitted on the Dowlen Road
Extension, Walden Road from 1,370 feet west of the west
right-of-way line of IH-10 to the ETJ boundary, Concord
Road from Gulf Street to Hwy. 105, Washington Boulevard
from Langham to Major and Phelan Blvd. from Major to Keith.
9. When a nonconforming advertising sign falls into disrepair
or is damaged by fire, explosion, act of God or other
calamity to the extent that the cost of reconstruction
or repair exceeds fifty (50) percent of the replacement
cost of the sign such nonconforming sign shall no longer
be permitted.
Exhibit is attached.