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An Ordinance amending Article 17 for signage for hospitals and regional medical campuses to allow additional wall-mounted and free standing signage for a hospital or a regional medical campus (Baptist Hospitals, Inc.). Approval of the Staff Alternative Text 9-0 OBJECTORS [Div. of Planning, Duncan]
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[An Ordinance amending Article 17 of the Zoning Ordinance to allow additional wall-mounted and free standing signage for a hospital or a regional medical campus. Approval of the Staff Alternative Text 9-0 OBJECTORS [Div. of Planning, Duncan]]
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WHEREAS, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Planning Commission has considered a text amendment to Article 17 of the Zoning Ordinance to allow additional wall-mounted and free standing signage for a hospital or a regional medical campus; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission did hold public hearings on this proposed text amendment on December 17, 2015 and January 28, 2016; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission did recommend APPROVAL of the staff alternative text by a vote of 9-0; and
WHEREAS, this Council agrees with the recommendation of the Planning Commission; and
WHEREAS, the recommendation form of the Planning Commission is attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE LEXINGTON-FAYETTE URBAN COUNTY GOVERNMENT:
Section 1 - That Article 17-7(e) of the Zoning Ordinance of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government is hereby amended as follows and by adding17-7(e):
17-7(e) Professional Office Zone (P-1) and Mixed Use 1: Neighborhood Node (MU-1) - Permitted signs may be either free standing or wall mounted, as specifically noted; signs shall be non-illuminated, indirectly illuminated, or internally illuminated unless otherwise specified. No free standing sign shall exceed ten (10) feet in height, with the exception of hospitals, as regulated below.
No change to sub-sections (1)-(11)
(12) In addition, and within a hospital campus or Regional Medical Campus (as generally defined in 23A-10(b)(9)), only:
(a) Project identification signs, maximum of three per campus, free standing or wall mounted. A project identification sign located along a street classified as a collector or an arterial shall not exceed one hundred and fifty (150) square feet in area and twenty (20) feet in height. A project identification sign located at the intersection of a street classified as a collector or an arterial and a local street shall not exceed seventy-five (75) square feet and fifteen (15) feet in height. No project identification signs shall be located along a street classified as a local street or at the intersection of two local streets.
(b) Project entrance identification signs of permanent construction, free standing or wall mounted; not ex-ceeding one hundred (100) square feet in area; not exceeding ten (10) feet in height; no more than two per entrance along a street classified as a collector or arterial; not more than two entrances to be identified per campus. Such signs shall only be located at entrances shown on an approved development plan.
(c) Three wall-mounted identification or business signs for buildings with two street frontages, located on separate wall faces, not to exceed five percent (5%) of the wall area to which the signs are attached. Signs not located on a street frontage shall not be placed on a building face directly adjacent to any residential zone.
17-7(n) Office, Industry and Research Park (P-2) zone
No change to sub-sections (1) and (2)
(3) Project entrance identification signs shall be permitted and regulated under Section 17-7(e)(10)(c) above.
17-7(q) Expansion Area Zones
No change to sub-sections (1) or (2b)
(2)(a)Project entrance identification signs shall be for Professional Office Projects, as specifically regulated under Section 17-7(e)(10). All free-standing identification or business signs shall be monument type.
Section 10 - That this Ordinance shall become effective on the date of its passage.
PASSED URBAN COUNTY COUNCIL:
MAYOR
ATTEST:
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Clerk of Urban County Council