(a) Applicability.
(1) The Planning Commission may approve a comprehensive sign plan as a conditional use to establish sign regulations separate from the provisions of this chapter for a designated area of the City. Such designated areas shall be contiguous and possess certain unique characteristics, as determined by the Planning Commission, to warrant sign regulations which differ from one or more of the provisions of this chapter.
(2) Comprehensive sign plans may be used for multiple signs for either a single building or a group of related buildings to ensure that all the signage is displayed in a coordinated fashion.
(3) A comprehensive sign plan shall be observed by the persons affected in lieu of compliance with the affected provisions of this chapter. However, those provisions of this chapter which are not affected by such comprehensive sign plan shall continue to apply in the designated area.
(4) Nothing in this section or elsewhere in this chapter shall prevent a comprehensive sign plan from establishing regulations which are more stringent than those set forth in this chapter.
(b) Purpose.
(1) The purpose of a comprehensive sign plan is to allow development projects in a designated area to integrate the design of signs with the design of the structures to form a unified architectural statement.
(2) A comprehensive sign plan is not intended to simply permit larger or more visible signs or additional signs than may be permitted, without any consideration for unique design and display that will achieve, not circumvent the intent of this chapter.
(c) Application Requirements.
(2) The applicant shall submit a statement indicating the manner in which the property owner will enforce compliance with the approved comprehensive sign plan by both the owner and the tenants on the site.
(3) The applicant shall acknowledge that a copy of the comprehensive sign plan approval will be provided by the property owner or manager to each existing tenant and any new tenants.
(4) The applicant shall acknowledge that the property owner/property manager is responsible for allocating sign area among tenants in a multi-tenant building or development.
(d) Standards.
(1) The Planning Commission may allow signage which otherwise exceeds the number, type, size and placement as otherwise permitted in this chapter when it determines that such additional signage is warranted due to the size, nature, number of tenants or other features of the site as they may exist.
(2) The signs shall enhance the overall development, be in harmony with, and relate visually to other signs included in the comprehensive sign plan, to the structures and/or developments they identify, and to surrounding development.
(e) Modifications.
(1) The Administrator may approve the substitution of sign panels provided the panels are the same size as those being replaced and meet all other requirements of the comprehensive sign plan.
(2) If additional signage is proposed or if any aspect of the original comprehensive sign plan is modified with the exception of sign panels, approval from the Planning Commission is required to modify the conditional use permit.
(Ord. 16-19. Passed 9-16-19.)