Agenda Item 7AAGENDA ITEM # 7A
JANUARY 9, 2012
CITY COMMISSION MEETING
STAFF REPORT
AGENDA ITEM: Sign Code Revisions
SUBMITTED BY: Michael Griffin, CBO, CFM Interim Community Development
Director/Building Official
DATE: January 3, 2012 A/
BACKGROUND: Attached you will find proposed Ordinance 60 -12 -17 with revisions as requested at the
December 12, 2011 City Commission meeting. The revisions are incorporated to restrict the size of a
individual sign to one hundred (100) square feet when a building is located a distance of less than one
hundred (100) linear feet from the front lot line. Additionally, the revisions will allow an individual sign to
be a maximum of two hundred (200) square feet when the building is located a distance of more than one
hundred (100) linear feet from the front lot line. The revisions should help reduce the visual scale of
individual signage when a building is located closer than one hundred (100) linear feet to the front lot line.
BUDGET: No budget impact
RECOMMENDATION: Adopt Ordinance 60 -12 -17 amending Chapter 17 of the City Code
ATTACHMENT: Ordinance 60 -12 -17
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AGENDA ITEM # 7A
JANUARY 9, 2012
ORDINANCE NUMBER 60 -12 -17
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH, COUNTY OF
DUVAL, STATE OF FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 17 OF THE
CODE OF ORDINANCES WHICH REGULATES SIGNS AND
ADVERTISING STRUCTURES AS ADOPTED BY ORDINANCE
NUMBER 60- 02 -12, INCLUDING ALL SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS
THERETO; THIS ORDINANCE SPECIFICALLY AMENDING SECTION
17 -29, SIGNS PERMITTED WITHIN COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
ZONING DISTRICTS; PROVIDING FOR RECORDATION AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the City Commission for the City of Atlantic Beach, Florida (hereinafter
the "Commission ") hereby finds that there are various persons and entities that have an interest
in communicating with the public through the use of signs and advertising structures, and
WHEREAS, the Commission is responsible for advancing the City's commitment to
provide opportunities for economic development that serve and meet the needs of residents and
visitors, while maintaining a safe and aesthetically pleasing enviromnent where signs do not
create excessive visual clutter and distraction and do not impair the safety of pedestrians and
vehicular traffic, and
WHEREAS, it is the intent of the Commission that the regulations contained in this
Chapter shall provide uniform sign criteria, which shall place the fewest possible restrictions on
personal liberties, property rights and the free exercise of Constitutional rights, while achieving
the City's goal of creating a safe, healthy, attractive and economically viable community free
from excessive clutter or visual distractions from right -of -ways and adjacent properties and the
surrounding natural environment, and
WHEREAS, these regulations shall also provide appropriate and consistent signage for
the commercial and industrial zoning districts, recognizing the scale and context of properties
within these particular areas of the City, and
WHEREAS, these regulations set forth herein provide for orderly growth; protect and
conserve the value of property; promote, protect and improve the health, safety, comfort, good
order, appearance, convenience and general welfare of the public, and serve to accomplish and
implement the goals and objectives of the Comprehensive Plan, and
AGENDA ITEM # 7A
JANUARY 9, 2012
WHEREAS, after required notice was published, public hearings were held on the 12
day of December, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. and on the 9 1h day of January, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. to hear and
enact said amendments to Chapter 17 of the Code of Ordinances for the City of Atlantic Beach.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED BY THE CITY COMMISSION ON
BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH, FLORIDA:
SECTION 1. Chapter 17, Section 17 -29, Signs Permitted within Commercial and
Industrial Zoning Districts, is hereby amended and upon enactment shall read as set forth in
Exhibit A, attached to and made part of this Ordinance.
SECTION 2. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its final passage and
adoption and shall be recorded in a book kept and maintained by the Clerk of the City of Atlantic
Beach, Florida, in accordance with Section 125.68, Florida Statutes.
Passed on first reading by the City Commission of the City of Atlantic Beach the 12 day of
December, 2011. Passed on final reading and public hearing the day of ,
2012.
ATTEST:
DONNA L. BARTLE, CMC
City Clerk
Approved as to form and correctness:
ALAN C JENSEN, ESQUIRE
City Attorney
MIKE BORNO
Mayor/Presiding Officer
Ordinance No. 60 -12 -17 Page 2 of 2
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