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2nd Reading - Ordinance No. 2024-O-10: Request to update Article II, Definitions, Article III, Permitted, Conditional, Accessory and Prohibited Uses, Article VI, Sign Regulations, and Article XX, Ridgewood Avenue Corridor Design Regulations.
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APPLICANT:
City of Edgewater - Development Services
REQUESTED ACTION:
1. To amend Article II, Definitions, to add definition for Feather Flags and Murals.
2. To amend Article III, Permitted, Conditional, Accessory and Prohibited Uses, Table III Footnotes to allow by right the use of Pawn Shops and Tattoo Parlors/Body Piercing Studios within the Highway Commercial (B-3) zoning designation subject to an applicant meeting specific criteria.
3. To amend Article VI, Section 21-69.09, Window Signs, and Article XX, Section 21-650.02(c), Window Signs, to allow window signs to occupy seventy-five (75%) percent of all windows facing rights-of-way and to allow window signs to not exceed twenty (25%) percent on front doors.
4. To amend Article XX, Section 21-640.05, Prohibited Fa?ade Treatments, to allow for Murals within the Ridgewood Avenue Corridor.
5. To add to Article VI, Section 21-63.05, Feather Flags, and to amend Article XX, Section 21-650.06, Exempted Signs, to allow for feather flags within the Neighborhood Business (B-2), Highway Commercial (B-3), Tourist Commercial (B-4), Light Industrial (I-1), and Heavy Industrial (I-2) zoning districts.
LOCATION:
City-wide
BACKGROUND:
Development Services staff was asked by City Council to prepare text amendment changes to the land development code to allow for Feather Flags and Murals. While preparing the text amendment changes for the City Council Workshop, staff noticed that the current regulations for window decals were not being enforced. Development Services proceeded to draft new changes to the land development code to codify the established pattern of window decals present throughout the City of Edgewater. Staff presented the material to City Counc...
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