1. Ordinance 1639 - Zoning Text Amendment - Sign Regulations - 2nd ReadingPlanning Department
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Kalispell, MT 59901
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REPORT TO: Kalispell Mayor and City Council
FROM: P.J. Sorensen, Planner II
James H. Patrick, City Manager
SUBJECT: Kalispell Zoning ordinance Text Amendment - Revisions to Provisions
Relating to Non -conforming Signs and Reader Boards - Second Reading
MEETING DATE: June 16, 2008
BACKGROUND: This is the second reading on a request to amend the City Zoning ordinance
to revise provisions of the sign regulations relating to non -conforming signs and reader boards.
The Kalispell City Council approved the first reading of the ordinance at their regular meeting
of June 2, 2008.
RECOMMENDATION: A motion to approve the second reading of the ordinance would be in
order.
FISCAL EFFECTS: The primary fiscal impact would be felt by businesses with non-
conforming signage. 'Those businesses will be able to utilize certain non -conforming, building -
mounted signs for a more extensive period.
ALTERNATIVES: As suggested by the City Council.
Respectfully submitted,
P.J. Sorensen James H. Patric
Planner II City Manager
Report compiled: June 3, 2008
Cc: Theresa White, Kalispell City Clerk
ORDINANCE NO. 1639
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE KALISPELL ZONING ORDINANCE (ORDINANCE
NO,1460), BY AMENDING SECTION 27,24, SIGN REGULATIONS, AND DECLARING
AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City of Kalispell has submitted a written request to amend the Kalispell Zoning
Ordinance, by amending Section 27.24, Signs Regulations, and
WHEREAS, the request was forwarded to the Kalispell City Planning Board and Zoning
Commission by the Kalispell Planning Department after having been evaluated under
27.30.020, Kalispell Zoning Ordinance, and
WHEREAS, the Kalispell City Planning Board and Zoning Conmussion recommended that the
text of the Kalispell Zoning Ordinance be amended by altering the extent to which
non -conforming signs would maintain that status when the signage is discontinued or
the face of the sign is modified, and
WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed the KPD Report and the transmittal from the Kalispell
City Planning Board and Zoning Commission and hereby adopts the findings made in
Report #KZTA.-08-1 as the Findings of Fact applicable to this Ordinance.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
KALISPELL AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. The City of Kalispell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance No. 1460, is
hereby amended as follows on Exhibit "A".
SECTION II. All parts and portions of Ordinance No. 1460 not amended hereby
remain unchanged.
SECTION III. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after its final passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ADD SIGNED BY THE MAYOR OF THE
CITY OF KALISPELL THIS 16TH DAY OF JUNE, 2008.
Pamela B. Kennedy
Mayor
ATTEST:
Theresa white
City Clerk
EXHIBIT ""A"s
27.24.060: General Standards for all Signs.
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(2) An electronic message board provided it displays time and temperature a
minimum of every 30 seconds.JL..
. The electronic
message shall not change in increments of less than five seconds and shall not use
flashing or blinking characters. The use of red and Teen lights in the dis la
and streaming video '
of cxifteefi; are prohibited.
(5) A sign may include electronic and manual.1 changeable reader boards. No
more than 25% of any sign area may incorporate an electronic reader board and
no more than 50 % of any si n area m mcor orate a manually changeable
reader board. In no event shall the percentage of sin area occupied b
reader board. exceed 50 %. The reader board portion shall be architecturally
incorporated into the overall design of the sign. No such sign shall be considered
to be architecturally incorporated unless the reader board is contiguous to the
remainder of the sign face and is bounded by the same or similar framework.
27,24,150: Nonconforming Signs and Signs Without Permits. Existing signs
that do not conform to the provisions of these regulations but were legally in place
prior to the adoption or application of this ordinance, are considered non -conforming.
.All non -conforming signs shall be removed or brought into compliance with these
regulations as follows:
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(5). Discontinued freestanding signs shall be brought into compliance
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(8). Freestanding sgigns containing removable or replaceable panels shall be
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brought into compliance when a cumulative total of more than 50% of the
sign area or sign panels are replaced or modified.