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Bylaw 18/2018 - Land Use Bylaw Amendment - Schedule C (2nd & 3rd Reading)
Presented by: Chantelle Malo, Development Officer I
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RECOMMENDATION(S)
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That the Public Hearing on Bylaw 18/2018, be closed.
That Bylaw 18/2018 being amendment 161 to Land Use Bylaw 9/2005 be read a second time.
That Bylaw 18/2018 being amendment 161 to Land Use Bylaw 9/2005 be read a third and final time.
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PURPOSE OF REPORT
The purpose of this report is to address the December 4, 2017, motion to amend Schedule C to revert to previous language.
COUNCIL DIRECTION
On December 4, 2017, Council moved the following motion:
(CM-17-108)
That Schedule C-Sign Regulations Bylaw, Section 18(e) is amended to reinstate the limitation that is applied to C2, RC and CC districts only.
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
Schedule C of the LUB regulates all signage within the City of St. Albert. On September 5, 2017, Council approved amendments to Schedule C (Sign Regulations) of the Land Use Bylaw 9/2005 (LUB), including amendments pertaining to ‘Portable Signs’. Specifically, Section 18 of Schedule C speaks to ‘Portable Signs’. A portable sign is defined as, “a temporary sign, with changeable copy, designed to be readily relocated.”
Prior to September 5, 2017, the previous sign regulation did not place a limit on the number of portable signs allowed on CIS or C1 districted properties. The only requirement was that a separation distance of no less than 30m from another portable sign be maintained. However, in the C2, RC and CC Land Use Districts, portable signs were limited to a maximum of one (1) per site where the street frontage of the property was less than 30m, and two (2) per site where the street frontage of the property was more than 30m.
The possibility of a proliferation of portable signs within the CIS Land Use District, and to a lesser degree, within the C1 Land Use District, was a prime consideration when the current regulation, as amend...
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