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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2012-6-7932ORDINANCE NO. 2012-6-7932 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 III, 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) Signs authorized for POP 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 few twelve (12) 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 424: TTEST: Tammara S. Sanderson, City Clerk Introduced by the Board of Commissioners, June 12, 2012 Adopted by the Board of Commissioners, June 26, 2012 Recorded by Tammara S. Sanderson, June 26, 2012 Published by The Paducah Sun, July 5, 2012 \ord\plan\zone\126-76(1)-sign reg -POP zone 6-2012 separate days'ai twill become T _ 1-1'1-...111- 1- - F7=--7 I