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HomeMy WebLinkAboutM-01-0251?,VAN",=�OPIDA INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUk Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission Gimen City Manager 33 JAN 17 2001 Outdoor Advertising Review Board. The attached is a Discussion Item for your consideration regarding the Findings and Recommendations to City Commission from the Outdoor Advertising Review Board. CAG/DBI /LYS Planning and Zoning Department Recommendation on Outdoor Advertising Board Recommendations for amendments to Ordinance Current Code Requirement Outdoor Advertising Board Recommendation Planning and Zoning Department Recommendation Sec. 926.15.1 Increase the size of Denial on the increase in size advertising boards of billboard. The proposed Limitations on sign area, including from 750 square feet increase would have a embellishments; limitations on t9 960 square feet and tremendously negative effect projections of embellishments. eliminate 1 of the 2 on the properties adjacent to billboards allowed where the actual billboard is The area of an outdoor advertising sign per property. place — the increased size shall not exceed seven hundred fifty would require larger bases — (750) for each surface, including screening at the ground level embellishments, if any (with sign and would be insufficient to embellishment area as defined"as section buffer the effects. 2502). The Planning and Zoning Total area of embellishments, including Department recommends that portions falling within or superimposing billboard sizes be on the general display area, shall not commensurate with the type exceed one -hundred (100) square feet. of roadway on which the billboard is placed or visible No embellishments shall extend more from. Billboards located than five (5) feet above the top of the along highways should be no sign structure, or two (2) feet beyond the bigger than 672 square feet; sides or below the bottom of the sign billboards located along structure. primary and secondary roads should not exceed 360 square Embellishments shall be included in any feet and billboards located limitations affecting minimum clearance .along local and collector or maximum height of signs, permitted streets should not exceed 120 projections, or distance from any square feet. structure or lot or street line Approval of the elimination of 1 of the 2 billboards currently allowed per property. This will reduce the cluttering effect that can occur when billboards are too near each other. Sec. 926.15.2 Eliminate the prohibition on Denial on this recommendation billboards within 200 feet of a due to the cluttering effect that Limitations on location, limited access highway the placement of billboards orientation, spacing, height, (expressway). will have if placed to near the type and embellishments of expressways. Expressway are outdoor advertising signs in high speed corridors from relation to limited access which billboards are usually highways and expressways intended to be seen from a greater distance away to Except as otherwise provided compensate for the speed of in section 926.15.1, outdoor the vehicles. Crowding advertising signs may be billboards up against the erected, constructed altered, expressway will clutter the maintained or relocated within expressway corridors. six -hundred -sixty (660) feet but no nearer then two hundred (200) feet of any limited access highway including expressways as established by the State of Florida or any of its political subdivisions, provided that such sign faces are parallel to or at an angle of not greater than thirty (30) degrees with the centerline of any such limited access highway and faced away from such highway. Sec. 926.15.2 Remove the requirement that Denial. The angle and billboards be placed parallel limitation that billboards be Same as above to or at angle of not greater parallel to the expressways is a than 30 degrees from the requirement that if removed expressways. could increase the number of billboards and visibility of billboards on limited access highways and would then adds to the negative visual impact of billboards. Sec. 926.15.4. Modifications to landscape Denial by right of this requirements allowing for recommendation based on the Landscaping. All outdoor amount of landscape to be negative visual impacts at the advertising sites shall be based on unpaved area of lot ground level of such approximately landscaped as and allowances for no onsite billboards. Billboards are not follows: One (1) shade tree for landscape if it is impractical, attractive where they hit the the first five -hundred (500) in exchange for landscape to ground; they are basically square feet of site area and be placed offsite at the monolithic poles. The one (1) shade tree for each discretion of the City of landscape requirement is additional one thousand (1000) Miami. intended to soften the impacts square feet or portion thereof of the pole at the ground level. of site area; the remainder of This recommendation will the site area shall be basically allow billboards with landscaped with equal portions NO landscape buffering at the of hedges and/or shrubs and ground level. If it is living ground cover. Said impractical to place such landscaping shall be provided landscape around a billboard with irrigation and be on a particular site, Class II maintained in perpetuity. Special Permit may waive such requirements. 01- 254 Sec. 401. Schedule of District Regulations: C-2. Ground or freestanding signs, offsite, shall be limited to two (2) for any lot, whether or not occupied by a building. The area shall not exceed seven hundred (750) square feet for each surface, including embellishments. The total height shall not exceed thirty (30) feet, except as set forth in section 926.15.2, including embellishments, measured from the crown of the nearest adjacent local or arterial street, not including limited access highways or expressways; provided however, that the zoning administrator, at his discretion, may increase the measurement of the crown by up to five (5) feet to accommodate unusual or undulating site conditions. Amend C-2 to (again) increase the size of billboards from 750 square feet to 960 square feet; reduce 2 allowable billboards to 1; add a spacing requirement of 1000 feet between billboards along all streets, except those controlled by FDOT, in which case the spacing shall be 1500 feet; increase the height of billboards from 30 feet as measured from the crown of the nearest adjacent local or arterial road (not including expressways), to 20 feet from the crown of expressways or 50 feet above other roadways (as measured from the crown of the roadway, from which the billboards is intended to be primarily viewed). Denial on the size increase (for reasons stated above). Approval on elimination of 1 of the 2 permissible billboards. Approval on the distance requirements. Denial on the height increases as presented. Height increases to 20 feet from the crown of the expressways and 50 feet above the crown of roadways from which a billboard is intended to be viewed, could result in these structures going up to 65 feet or more in some cases. This increase in height would have a negative effect on residential areas adjacent to the commercial corridors on which the billboards are allowed and being placed. The layout of the City of Miami incorporates a commercial corridor grid system where the adjacent areas are for the most part residential. This proposed increase in height would result in billboards looming over people's homes at unacceptable heights. f — '210to)I None Jumbotron Video display The Planning and Zoning system signs. Department concurs with creating a new section of the The Board recommends that ordinance to address such the City proceed with signs, however, such signs adopting an ordinance which should be limited to Retail and will allow such signs by right Waterfront Retail Specialty within Retail or Waterfront Centers as defined by the City Retail Specialty Centers Code, by Class II Special (when not visible from a Permit, and should not be public right-of-way) and, by directly visible from right -of - Special Exception in the ways. Incorporating such CBD, SD -2 and SD -6 signs generally into the CBD, Districts with the following SD -6 and SD -2 Districts could limitations: have a tremendous adverse effect in not only creating 1. Must comply with the visual clutter, but in issues City's Noise related to life/safety. If such a regulations. sign system were to be placed 2. Paid commercial within a Retail Specialty advertisement shall Center or Waterfront Retail be limited to 50% of Specialty Center (such as the total operational Bayside, Cocowalk or time. Mayfair) the intended viewing 3. The multimedia video market would all be display system shall pedestrians and the system be limited to 1200 would pose no threats to the square feet of screen public; the placement of such area. Larger systems systems along a public right - shall require City of -way could cause pedestrian Commission and vehicular conflicts (from approval. distractions) which may result 4. The multimedia video in serious injuries. display system shall be designed to be , In addition, such new language compatible with the should also include language buildings and to ensure that pedestrian structures located on waterfronts (even though in a the property. Waterfront Specialty Center) 5. 1500 -foot radius from are protected from each other. incompatible video display 6. From a residence, not system` signs that could to be visible within interfere with the pedestrian 100 feet. nature of the specific waterfront involved (i.e. Dinner Key). 01- 25� Sec. 926.12 Signs or graphic or artistic value Graphic or artistic signs, or murals, with or without commercial messages and with no limitations to size, shall be permissible within the SD -6, SD -6.1 and CBD zoning districts, excluding those portions of these districts which lie north of I-395, except for those properties which are adjacent to I-395 on the north side of said expressway, which are hereby included in these provisions with the condition the any murals with commercial messages may only be located facing south. Commercial messages on such murals shall be consistent with and comply with Florida Statutes governing the visibility of commercial advertising along interstate highways and shall be permissible by Class II Special Permit with city commission approval. Upon compliance with all other requirements, said signs may be placed on the fagade of buildings when it is determined by the city commission that the proposed signs comply with the following criteria and limitations. Mural Ordinance Leave the motion as original proposed graphic Artist Signs applications not be sent to the UDRB or if sent to the UDRB not require board's approval only it's recommendation. The Planning and Zoning Department agree not to rescind; however, UDRB approval should be amended to say "UDRB review and recommendation" with final approval by the City Commission.