City of Gainesville - File #: 140501.

• File #: 140501.
• Version: 3
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 11/10/2014
• In control: City Attorney
• On agenda: 1/5/2015
• Final action: 1/15/2015
• Title: BUTLER DEVELOPMENT MASTER SIGNAGE PLAN (B) Ordinance No. 140501, Petition PB-14-106 PDA An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, adopting a Master Signage Plan to regulate signage within the Butler Development, a Planned Development (PD) zoning district that consists of approximately 267 acres generally located north of SW Archer Road, south of SW 24th Avenue, east of SW 40th Boulevard, and west of SW 34th Street; providing for enforcement; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/15/2015	3	City Commission	Adopted on Final Reading (Ordinance)	Pass
1/5/2015	2	City Commission	Approved (Petition) and Adopted on First Reading (Ordinance), as amended	Pass

title
BUTLER DEVELOPMENT MASTER SIGNAGE PLAN (B)

Ordinance No. 140501, Petition PB-14-106 PDA
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, adopting a Master Signage Plan to regulate signage within the Butler Development, a Planned Development (PD) zoning district that consists of approximately 267 acres generally located north of SW Archer Road, south of SW 24th Avenue, east of SW 40th Boulevard, and west of SW 34th Street; providing for enforcement; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date.

recommendation
The City Commission adopt the proposed ordinance.

explanation
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT STAFF REPORT

This ordinance will adopt a Master Signage Plan to regulate signage within the Butler Development, a Planned Development (PD) zoning district that consists of approximately 267 acres generally located north of SW Archer Road, south of SW 24th Avenue, east of SW 40th Boulevard, and west of SW 34th Street. On November 21, 2013, the City Commission adopted Ordinance No. 121108 rezoning Butler Development to PD. PD is a zoning district that may be adopted with customized land development regulations, such as a unified signage plan. The customized regulations are intended to promote and address unique and innovative development that is not provided for in the Land Development Code, but is nevertheless consistent with and promoted by the City of Gainesville Comprehensive Plan and is otherwise in accordance with law. Accordingly, Butler Development PD Ordinance No. 121108 included certain custom signage regulations but also included a provision that allows the Developer to submit, as it is now doing, a Master Signage Plan in lieu of the PD signage regulations, subject to review and approval by the City Commission. The standards by which the City Commission must review this Master Signage Plan are outlined below in the City Attorney memorandum and are the same for any sign...