HomeMy WebLinkAbout096 - 08/21/1990 - IMPOSING A MORATORIUM ON THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN OFF-PREMISE SIGNS ORDINANCE NO. 96, 1990
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
IMPOSING A MORATORIUM ON THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS
FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN OFF-PREMISE SIGNS
WHEREAS, the Council has determined that signs and billboards located
on premises to which they do not specifically relate (off-premise signs)
may endanger the public safety by distracting the attention of drivers from
the roadway necessary for the maintenance of traffic safety and may
otherwise endanger the public health, safety and welfare; and
WHEREAS, the Council has further determined that such off-premise
signs might also result in harm to the welfare of the City by creating
visible clutter and blight and by promoting a negative aesthetic impact in
the City; and
WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Fort Collins has determined that
it is in the best interests of the City, in the protection of the public
health, safety and welfare, that the regulation and prohibition of
off-premise signs should be analyzed by the staff, the regulated community
and the citizens of the City for the purpose of determining the best
possible approach for such regulation under the Constitution of the United
States and the State of Colorado; and
WHEREAS, in order to preserve the status quo pending further
investigation of the possible regulation of off-premise signs, the Council
has determined that a moratorium should be imposed upon the issuance of
permits for the construction of new off-premise signs, with certain
exceptions.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That there be and hereby is imposed for a period of one
hundred eighty (180) days from the effective date of this ordinance a
moratorium upon the issuance of permits for the erection or construction of
any sign or billboard which is used or intended for use to advertise,
identify or direct or attract the attention of the public to a business,
institution, product, organization, event or location offered or existing
elsewhere than upon the same lot, tract or parcel of land where such sign
or billboard is displayed, except such signs or billboards which carry only
ideological or political messages.
Section 2. That, during said one hundred eighty (180) day period, the
City staff shall work with the regulated sign industry and the citizens of
the City to develop and present to the City Council a proposed ordinance
regulating such off-premise signs, which proposed ordinance shall be
presented to the City Council in sufficient time that said ordinance, if
adopted, may take effect prior to the expiration of said one hundred eighty
(180) day period.
Section 3. That all permits for off-premise signs issued by the city
before the effective date of this ordinance shall be valid for a period of
thirty (30) days from the effective date of this ordinance and the sign
which is the subject of said permit must be erected by the end of said
thirty-day period or not at all . Said permits may be extended by the city
for one additional thirty-day period upon presentation of satisfactory
evidence of diligence toward completion of the sign and the existence of
circumstances beyond the control of the permittee causing the delay.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered
published this 7th day of August, A.D. 1990, and to be presented for final
passage on the 21st day of August, A.D. 1990.
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 21st day of August, A.D.
1990.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk