Ordinance 38050006.90000
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8/4/10
ORDINANCE NO. 3805
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS,
WASHINGTON, AMENDING THE PROVISIONS OF ECDC
20.60.025 RELATING TO TOTAL MAXIMUM SIGN AREA,
SUBSECTION A, BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL ZONE TO
PERMIT ADDITIONAL WINDOW SIGNAGE AND ADDRESS
MULTI - TENANT SITES, AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE
SAME SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE.
WHEREAS, the City's development regulations currently limit the number of
permitted permanent signs in commercial locations to three and provide a maximum signage area
per site, and
WHEREAS, it has been recommended following public hearing before the
Planning Board that the standards be amended to address signage on commercial sites with
multiple business tenants and to exempt window signage from the total number of permitted
signs, retaining the sign area limitations, and
WHEREAS, following its own public hearing, the City Council finds it to be in
the public interest to enact the recommended changes in order to provide better directional
information and as an economic development measure, NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Edmonds Community Development Code, Section 20.60.025
Total Maximum Permanent Sign Area, subsection A, Business and Commercial Zone Districts
is hereby amended to read as follows:
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20.60.025 Total maximum permanent sign area.
A. Business and Commercial Zone Districts (BN, BC, BD,
CW and CG).
1. The maximum total permanent sign area for allowed or
permitted uses in the BN, BC, BD and CW zones shall be one
square foot of sign area for each lineal foot of wall containing the
main public entrance to the primary building or structure located
upon a separate legal lot.
2. The maximum total permanent sign area for allowed or
permitted uses in the CG zone shall be one square foot of sign area
for each lineal foot of building frontage along a public street and/or
along a side of the building containing the primary public entrance
to a maximum of 200 square feet. The allowable sign area shall be
computed separately for each qualifying building frontage, and
only the sign area derived from that frontage may be oriented
along that frontage. Sign areas for wall- mounted signs may not be
accumulated to yield a total allowable sign area greater than that
permitted upon such frontage, except that businesses choosing not
to erect a freestanding sign may use up to 50 percent of their
allowable freestanding sign area for additional attached sign area.
Use of the additional area shall be subject to the review of the
architectural design board.
3. The maximum total permanent sign area may be divided
between wall, projecting, and freestanding signs, in accordance
with regulations and maximum sign area and height for each type
of sign, as provided in ECDC 20.60.030 through 20.60.050.
Window signs meeting the requirements of ECDC 20.60.035 do
not count against the total permanent sign area permitted.
4. The maximum number of permitted permanent signs is
three per site, or three per physically enclosed business space on
commercial sites with multiple business tenants. Window signs
meeting the requirements of ECDC 20.60.035 do not count against
the total number of permitted permanent signs. Multi - tenant sites
are allowed one additional group sign identifying the individual
subtenants at the site. The total sign area of all signs permitted on-
site must also comply with the maximum total permanent sign area
specified in this chapter.
Section 2. Effective Date. This ordinance, being an exercise of a power specifi-
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cally delegated to the City legislative body, is not subject to referendum, and shall take effect
five (5) days after passage and publication of an approved summary thereof consisting of the
title.
APPROV D:
MAYOR MIKE COOP
ATTEST /AUTHENTICATED :
CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY.
BY swa—&
W. SCOTT SNYDER
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: 08 -13 -2010
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: 08 -16 -2010
PUBLISHED: 08 -22 -2010
EFFECTIVE DATE: 08 -27 -2010
ORDINANCE NO. 3805
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SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 3805
of the City of Edmonds, Washington
On the 16th day of August, 2010, the City Council of the City of Edmonds,
passed Ordinance No. 3805. A summary of the content of said ordinance, consisting of the title,
provides as follows:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, AMENDING THE
PROVISIONS OF ECDC 20.60.025 RELATING TO TOTAL MAXIMUM SIGN AREA,
SUBSECTION A, BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL ZONE TO PERMIT ADDITIONAL
WINDOW SIGNAGE AND ADDRESS MULTI - TENANT SITES, AND FIXING A TIME
WHEN THE SAME SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE.
The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon request.
DATED this 17th day of August, 2010.
CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
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STATE OF WASHINGTON,
COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH
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SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO: 3805
of the City of Edmonds, Washington
Inc. iS9"
On The 16th day of August, 2010, the City Council of the City of
Edmonds, passed Ordinance No. 3805. A summary of the content
of said ordinance; consistingg of the title, provides as follows:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE'CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHING-
TON, AMENDING THE PROVISIONS OF ECDC 20.60.025.,
RELATING TO TOTAL MAXIMUM SIGN AREA, SUBSEC-
TION A, BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL ZONE TO PERMIT
ADDITIONAL WINDOW SIGNAGE AND ADDRESS `MULTI
TENANT SITES, AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME
SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE.
-, The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon request.
DATED this 17th day of August, 2010.
CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
Published: August 22, 2010.
AUG 2 6 2010
Account Name: City of Edmonds
Affidavit of Publication
S.S.
The undersigned, being first duly sworn on oath deposes and says that she is Principal Clerk of
THE HERALD, a daily newspaper printed and published in the City of Everett, County of
Snohomish, and State of Washington; that said newspaper is a newspaper of general
circulation in said County and State; that said newspaper has been approved as a legal
newspaper by order of the Superior Courtof Snohomish County and that the notice
Ordinance No. 3805
Relating to Total Maximum Sign Area
a printed copy of which is hereunto attached, was published in said newspaper proper and not in
supplement form, in the regular and entire edition of said paper on the following days and
times, namely:
August 22, 2010
and that said newspaper was regularly distributed to ifs subscribers during all of said period.
sworn to before me this
day of August, 20
Notary Public in and
County.
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