(a) General provisions.
(1) The city council or city plan commission may authorize a hearing to designate an existing sign as an extraordinarily significant sign. Any person may apply for designation of an existing sign as an extraordinarily significant sign. Except for city council or city plan commission authorized hearings, each owner of a proposed extraordinarily significant sign and each owner of property where the proposed extraordinarily significant sign is located must sign the application.
(2) The director shall send written notice of a public hearing on an application to designate an extraordinarily significant sign to all owners of real property lying within 200 feet of the boundary of the area of request.
(4) An owner of an extraordinarily significant sign must ensure that the sign is not structurally dangerous or a fire hazard, and does not cause electrical shocks or other hazardous conditions.
(b) The city plan commission shall review an application to designate an extraordinarily significant sign in accordance with Subsection (c) of this section in a public hearing and shall submit its recommendation to the city council. The city council shall act upon the recommendation of the city plan commission by granting or denying the application subject to the voting requirement in Section 51A-4.701(c)(2)(B) and Section 51A-7.803 of this article.
(c) To qualify for designation as an extraordinarily significant sign, the sign must:
(1) be at least 40 years of age;
(2) possess unique physical design characteristics such as configuration, color, texture, or other unique characteristics; and
(3) be of extraordinary significance to the city, the historic district where it is located, or the historic structure to which it is attached.
(d) In the consideration of Subsection (c)(3) of this section, the following must be evaluated:
(1) the significance of the sign on the basis of the significance of the physical composition or structure of the sign without regard to the significance of the company or other entity which is identified by the sign; and
(2) the importance of the sign in identifying a particular area of the city and the attitude and sentiment of the community concerning the significance of the sign without regard to the significance of the company or other entity which is identified by the sign. (Ord. Nos. 19455; 19557; 20927; 21186; 22738)