Subject: 10623/Code/3-102/SignAmendment
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1989 12:20:00 -0500


                  
                  
                  
                   	     ORDINANCE NO. 10623
                  
                  
                   AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHATTANOOGA CITY CODE,
                   PART II, SECTION 3-102(g), RELATIVE TO SPECIAL
                   PERMITS FOR ON-PREMISE SIGNS AND/OR BANNERS
                   LOCATED UPON COMMERCIAL, PREDOMINANTLY RETAIL,
                   DEVELOPMENTS.
                  
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              	   BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
         CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, That:
        
              	   Section 1.  Chattanooga City Code, Part II, Section
         3-102(g), be and the same is hereby amended so as to delete 
said
         subsection in its entirety and insert in lieu thereof the
         following:
               
                (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: (a) under the same management; (2) not
                less than twenty-five thousand (25,000) square feet
                of usable retail floor area; (3) not less than two
                (2) stories in height; and (4) located in the
                downtown area as described in Section 3-52(a) of
                this chapter.  Any such special permit may be
                granted only after the Board has reviewed and
                approved all signs and/or banners 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
                   (1) 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 Section 3-92
                   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
                   or directly outside a common entrance for two or
                   more tenants; and
                  
                   (iii)  Roof signs shall not be permitted.
                  
              	   For the purpose 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.
        
              	   SECTION 2.  BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this 
Ordinance
         shall take effect two weeks from and after its passage, as
         provided by law.
        
         PASSED on Third and Final
         Reading October 7, 1997.      
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              	   	     	       	    	   CHAIRPERSON
        
              	   	     	       APPROVED:__X___ DISAPPROVED: _______
        
              	   	     	       DATE:___October 9, 1997_____________
        
        
              	   	     	       s/__________________________________
              	   	     	       	    	      MAYOR
        
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