HomeMy WebLinkAbout2012-5-7922ORDINANCE NO. 2012-5-7922
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 126-76 (1), SIGNS AUTHORIZED FOR
POP ZONE OF CHAPTER 126, ZONING OF THE PADUCAH CODE OF ORDINANCES
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. That Article IIl, General Regulations, Section 126-76(1), Signs
Authorized for POP Zone, of Chapter 126, Zoning of the Paducah Code of Ordinances is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"(1) Sagas autFivr zed for P, ' P Zone. No signs shall be permitted in the POP Zone
of the city except as provided in subsections (e) and (g) and as provided as follows:
(1) Every lot or tract shall be restricted to one freestanding business sign.
(2) Freestanding business signs shall not exceed four feet above grade in height or
more than 12 square feet in area for each foot of lineal frontage of the building.
However, no sign shall exceed 200 square feet in area (100 square feet per face,
two -face maximum) except as otherwise provided herein.
(3) Hotels, motels, and restaurants shall be permitted to have one freestanding
business sign. Such signs shall not exceed the height of the roof line of the
principal structure. Such sign shall not exceed 40 feet in height and shall not
exceed 200 square feet in area per sign face.
(4) All freestanding business signs shall have a minimum setback of 20 feet from
the street.
(5) Lighted signs shall be permitted. However, all sign lighting shall be only of a
type, intensity and direction only necessary to light the sign. Electronic
message signs shall be permitted.
(6) One sign shall be permitted to be attached to the front of a principal building.
However, such sign shall not exceed five percent of the total above -grade
elevation building face.
(7) Private directional signs indicating entrance, exit, or location of parking shall
be permitted in the POP Zone. Such signs shall not exceed four square feet in
surface area for each sign and the height must not be more than 30 inches from
the street level. These signs must be placed on private property and not on
public right-of-way.
SECTION 2. That if any section, paragraph or provision of this ordinance shall be found
to be inoperative, ineffective or invalid for any cause, the deficiency or invalidity of such section,
paragraph or provision shall not affect any other section, paragraph or provision hereof, it being the
purpose and intent of this ordinance to make each and every section, paragraph, an provision hereof
separable from all other sections, paragraphs and provisions.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be read on
effective upon summary publication pursuant to KRS Chapter
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Introduced by the Board of Commissioners, April 24, 2012
Adopted by the Board of Commissioners, May 8, 2012
Recorded by Tammara S. Brock, May 8, 2012
Published by The Paducah Sun, May 14, 2012
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