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ADDITIONAL SIGNAGE FOR MULTIPLE-FAMILY DEVELOPMENTS (B)
Ordinance No.100101; Petition PB-10-21-TCH.
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending Section 30-318(d)(2) of the Land Development Code, related to permanent development identification signs and structures for subdivisions and neighborhoods; by allowing additional signage for multi-family developments with more than one frontage and increasing the maximum size of the secondary entrance signs; providing directions to the codifier; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date.
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The City Commission adopt the proposed ordinance.
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PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT STAFF REPORT
This petition and ordinance amend Section 30-318 (d)(2) of the City's Land Development Code, to allow additional and larger identification signage for multiple-family developments with frontage on multiple streets. Section 30-318(d)(2) specifically regulates identification signage for multiple-family residential developments, community residential homes of over fourteen residents, mobile home parks and other allowed uses in multiple-family zoning districts. Currently, a multiple-family development is allowed one identification sign of up to 24 square feet in size, excluding structural elements and decorative features. This can be a single sign unit with two faces or a single-faced sign mounted on each side of the entrance into the development. If the development has more than one approved entrance, one additional sign designed for identification purposes only, on a structure not exceeding four square feet in size, is currently allowed at each entranceway.
The Petitioner requested a code revision to allow an additional frontage sign of up to 128 square feet in size and up to 12' in height and to allow more than identification information to be displayed on the sign.
City staff did not support th...
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