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BUTLER DEVELOPMENT MASTER SIGNAGE PLAN ADMENDMENT (B)
Ordinance No. 160679, Petition PB-16-169 PDA
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending the Master Signage Plan that regulates 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.
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The City Commission adopt the proposed ordinance.
explanation
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT STAFF REPORT
NOTE: Page 17 of Exhibit A - "Butler Development Master Signage Plan" to the ordinance was amended after first reading, on July 6, 2017, to incorporate City Commission's requested changes.
This ordinance will amend the adopted Master Signage Plan that regulates 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, which rezoned Butler Development to PD. PD is a zoning district that may be adopted with customized land development regulations, such as a unified signage plan, which 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 a Master Signage Plan in lieu of the PD signage regulations, subject to review and approval...
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