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JEFFERSON COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA REQUEST
TO: Board of County Commissioners
Philip Morley, County Administrator
FROM: David Goldsmith, Interim Directo
Joel Peterson, Associate Planner
David Wayne Johnson, Associate Planner
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DATE: January 4, 2016
RE: County Administrator's Briefing Session: Continuation of
December 8 discussion on sign code amendment: recommended
amendment text, applicability to Title 17, and direction regarding
public hearing.
STATEMENT OF ISSUE:
The Planning Commission held a public hearing on November 4, 2015, regarding proposed
text for a Board -sponsored amendment to the Unified Development Code at JCC 18.30.150 to
broaden the applicability of readerboard/changing message signs for public purpose entities.
The Planning Commission and Department of Community Development made changes to the
proposed text to increase workability and to be responsive to comments received. Any new
text requires subsequent public review and hearing.
Public comments during the Planning Commission review included a proposal for a changing
message sign in Port Ludlow, an area administered under Title 17, Jefferson County Code.
Associate Planner David Wayne Johnson will discuss how the amendment to the sign code in
JCC 18.30.150 applies to Title 17 and Port Ludlow.
ANALYSIS:
The proposed revisions to the sign code in Title 18 can also be applied to the Title 17
regulations for Port Ludlow.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no direct fiscal impact from conducting the briefing and discussion.
County Administrator Briefing
RECOMMENDATION:
Discuss recommendations for sign code amendment during County Administrator's Briefing
Session and direct DCD on amendment text and public hearing schedule.
DEPARTMENT CONTACT:
Joel Peterson, Associate Planner, 374-4457
REVIEWED BY:
Philip Morley, oibnty Admirristrmttor Date
Proposed Sign Code Amendment Text, JCC 18.30.150
January 4, 2016 County Administrator Briefing Session
Alternate Proposed Text #2 after Planning Commission Public Hearing:
(c) Changing message signs are allowed only in rural commercial and rural industrial zones and
must be directed away from adjacent property zoned residential or open space, including
properties across a public right-of-way; provided that changing message signs which are also
governmental signs, as defined elsewhere in this code, are allowed in other zoning designations
not listed here, through a Conditional Use Permit (C) process, if the parcel where the proposed
changing message sign would be built, installed or placed is owned by a municipal corporation
or other public entity, and the sign is placed or installed within 100 feet of the logical outer
boundary of a LAMIRD. No changing message sign may be located closer than 200 feet from
adiacent property zoned residential or open space, as measured from the sign location to the
nearest property line of the residential or open space zoned property unless said sign is_
permitted as a conditional use subiect to a public hearing.
Amended Proposed Text #2 after December 8, 2015 County Administrator Briefing
Discussion:
(c) Changing message signs are allowed only in rural commercial rural industrial, urban,
and master planned resort commercial zones and must be directed away from adjacent property
zoned residential or open space, including properties across a public right-of-way;; e
except that changing message signs which are also governmental signs, as defined elsewhere
in this code, are allowed in other zoning designations not listed here, through a Conditional Use
Permit (C) process, if the parcel where the proposed changing message sign would be built,
installed or placed is owned by a municipal corporation or other public entity, and the sign is
placed or installed within 440-150 feet of the logical outer boundary of a LAMIRD. No changing
message sign may be located closer than 200 feet from adiacent property zoned residential or
open space, as measured from the sign location to the nearest property line of the residential or
open space zoned property unless said ciirn is nermi#er! as a nnnditional use c, bent to a p blin
#ear►$, provided that a changing message sign may be closer than 200 feet to a residential or
open space zone with review and approval through a conditional discretionary use permit
process (CM) if proposed by a non-governmental entity, or with review and approval through a
Conditional Use Permit (C) process if proposed by a governmental entity as described above.
• Adds master planned resort to list of commercial areas allowed for changing message
signs
• Changes 100 feet to 150 feet
• Specifies Type III CUP (Hearing Examiner decision) for governmental entities and Type
11 Conditional Discretionary Use Permit process (C(d)) for non-governmental entities.