Subject: 10337/Code/3-102(g)/SignAppJuris
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1990 10:37:00 -0500


                               ORDINANCE NO. 10337
        
                  
                   AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHATTANOOGA CITY CODE,
                   PART II, CHAPTER 3, BY ADDING A NEW SUBSECTION
                   3-102(G) RELATIVE TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE
                   BOARD OF SIGN APPEALS.
                  
                  
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              	   BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
         CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, That Chattanooga City Code, Part II,
         Chapter 3, be and the same is hereby amended by adding a new
         subsection 3-102(g) relative to the jurisdiction of the Board 
of
         Sign Appeals, as follows:
                (g)  To hear and rule on requests for special
                permits for on-premise signs and/or banners
                located upon commercial, predominantly retail,
                developments which are (1) under the same
                management, (2) not less than 50,000 square feet
                of usable retail floor area, (3) not less than an
                average height of three stories, and (4) located
                in the downtown area as described in A73-52(a) of
                this chapter.  Any such special permit may be
                granted only after the Board has reviewed and
                approved all signs for the development.  The Board
                may authorize signs and/or banners to be erected
                which are not otherwise in compliance with the
                provisions of this chapter, subject to the
                following limitations:
                    
                     	  (i)  The Board may not authorize
                     any increase in the maximum sign area
                     for any permitted free-standing sign;
                    
                     	  (ii)  The Board may authorize not
                     more than one projecting sign per retail
                     occupant or retail tenant of the
                     development, and any such projecting
                     sign shall not be considered as a
                     detached sign for the purposes of A73-92
                     of this chapter, provided that any such
                     projecting sign shall not extend more
                     than eight (8) feet from the facade of
                     any building nor shall any such
                     projecting sign exceed thirty (30)
                     square feet in sign area, and provided
                     further that such projecting signs shall
                     only be located directly outside the
                     space occupied by the occupant or tenant
                     to which the sign refers; and
                    
                     	  (iii)  Roof signs shall not be
                     permitted.
                    
                For the purposes of this subsection (g), "retail"
                shall include restaurants.  Nothing in this
                subsection (g) shall require the Board to grant
                any relief or to issue any special permit to any
                applicant.
               
               
              	   BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that this Ordinance shall take
         effect two weeks from and after its passage as provided by law, 

         provided that this Ordinance shall be operative immediately.
        
         PASSED on Third and Final
         Reading November 21, 1995.    s/s______________________________
              	   	     	       	    	  CHAIRPERSON
        
              	   	     	       APPROVED:__X__ DISAPPROVED:______
        
              	   	     	       DATE:_______________ ______, 1995.
        
        
              	   	     	       s/s______________________________
              	   	     	       	    	       MAYOR
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