The Sign Control Board shall have the following powers and perform the following duties.
(A) The City Council may authorize the Planning and Zoning Commission to serve as the Sign Control Board. In the event the Planning and Zoning Commission is not appointed by the City Council as the Sign Control Board, the City Council may serve as the Sign Control Board, or may appoint a separate board for sign control.
(B) The Sign Control Board may sit as a board of appeals in public hearings for purposes of this chapter. In considering the requests for variation to requirements of this chapter, the Sign Control Board shall consider, but not be limited to, the degree of variance, the reasons for the variance requested, the location of the variance request, the duration of the requested variance, the effect on public safety, protection of neighborhood property, the degree of hardship or injustice involved, and the effect of the variance on the general plan for signing within the city. The Sign Control Board shall grant the variance requested, grant a variance of a greater or lesser nature than requested, or deny a variance request.
(C) All action on variance requests shall be submitted to the City Council for review, and the decisions of the Board shall become final unless reversed or modified by the City Council at the second City Council meeting following the Sign Control Board meeting at which formal action was taken by the Board. In reviewing the action of the Board, or variance requests, the Council shall consider the records made at the hearing before the Sign Control Board.
(D) The Sign Control Board shall conduct studies, and prepare opinions and general plans as requested by the City Council.
(E) The Sign Control Board may, from time to time, recommend to the City Council amendments or changes to this chapter.
(Ord. 595, passed 5-23-2006)