Item 8B
AGENDA ITEM #8B
NOVEMBER 22, 2004
CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH
CITY COMMISSION STAFF REPORT
AGENDA ITEM: Provisions for discussion related to Bracket Signs within Town
Center and the Central Business District
SUBMITTED BY: Sonya Doerr, AICP ~~
Community Development Director
DATE: .November 15, 2004
BACKGROUND: As requested, attached is a possible Chapter 17 (Signs and Advertising
Structures) revision for discussion related to allowing small Bracket Signs to extend into the
public right-of--way (such as over sidewalks) within the Central Business District. (Please keep
in mind that the Central Business District zoning district extends west to Sherry Drive.)
At the request of the City Commission, Staff has coordinated with the Town Center Agency
and the City of Neptune Beach regarding their interests related. to this issue. The City of
Neptune Beach is not interested in pursuing any revision of their sign regulations, which would
allow signs within (or over) right-of--ways within Town Center. Several legal nonconforming
bracket signs exist within the Neptune Beach portion of Town Center, but these were permitted
prior to last year's revision of the CONB sign regulations, which are substantively consistent
with the COAB sign regulations. The Town Center Agency is generally supportive of the
proposed provisions.
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BUDGET: No budget issues.
RECOMMENDATION: Direction to staff.
ATTACHMENTS: Provisions for consideration related to bracket signs extending into
public right-of--ways within the Central Business District.
REVIEWED H CITY MA1yACFR:
November 22, 2004 regular meeting
AGENDA ITEM #8B
~,. NOVEMBER 22, 2004
Section 17-29 (a}
~• (3) In lieu of the above-described Fascia Signs, a business or Permitted Use may install a
single Bracket Sign or a single Marquee Sign in accordance with the following
provisions. for discussion: lzrnit to retail and restaccrant uses only?
i. Size permitted: The maximum size of a Bracket Sign or a Marquee Sign shall
be determined in the same manner as a Fascia Sign, provided that no such Sign
~+ shall have more than sixty (60) square feet of projected Sign Face Area.
ii. There shall be not more than twelve (12) inches of clear space adjacent to the
~ Building wall, and -such Signs shall not extend or project from the face of the
Building more than ten (10) feet.
iii. No portion of such Sign shall extend above the height of the roof.
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iv. No portion of such Sign shall be closer than eight (8) feet to any sidewalk or
pedestrian walkway, and no closer than five (5) feet from any Street side
*"' property line. All such Signs shall be securely anchored to a wall and shall in
no manner be connected to or suspended from the roof of any Building.
v Within the Central Business District only and in addition to other permitted
Signs a single Bracket Sign or a single Marquee Sign may extend above a
public sidewalk or pedestrian walkway. The purpose of this provision is to
provide appropriate and consistent signa~e for the unique pedestrian
environment of the Town Center_ area. Such Suns shall be located only _in
accordance with followin rovisions.
~) May be located only above first floor entryways or first floor windows with
no portion of the Sign Display Area exceeding ten (10) feet above the
established grade of the adioinin~ sidewalk or walkway;
(b) shall provide minimum vertical clearance of eight (8) feet above the
sidewalk or walkway;
~c) shall provide minimum clearance of six (6} inches from the building fagade;
(d) shall be separated from any other such Sign by a minimum distance of
twenty (20 feet;
(e) shall be consrsfent in size of three (3Zfeet in width and two (2) feet in depth;
{,~ shall dive the appearance of traditional wood routed or sandblasted Suns.
_Materials such as HDU (high density urethane), recycled HDPE (High
Density Poly Ethylene~,plastics which give a similar appearance, shall be
acceptable substitutes.
~ fig) shall be externally illuminated only and shall contain no electrical
components; and
~ (h) shall create no safety hazard or obstruction to public's use of the sidewalk or
walkway as determined bathe Director of Public Safety.