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Council Minutes of 3/8/2000 Olmsted entitled "Signs" as amended. Last week, a special meeting of the North Olmsted ~~~ Planning Commission was held. At that meeting, various amendments were discussed ~, concerning the Ordinance 2000-12. The suggested amendments which were made by the Planning Commission were incorporated into the ordinance, which is on for second reading tonight. Those amendments are as follows: • Section 1163.10 entitled "Non-conforming Signs" subsection (a) was amended to read as follows: "(a) No non-conforming sign or part thereof shall be altered, modified, or changed in any manner whatsoever in any process of reconstruction, repair, or restoration, when the cost of said reconstruction, repair, or restoration is more than 50% of the sign's replacement cost, unless the entire sign shall be brought into compliance with all of the provisions of this Chapter, and all other applicable city laws." • Section 1163.10 entitled "Non-conforming Signs" subsection (b) reads as follows: "(b) Every non-conforming sign located upon a property which undergoes a change of occupancy shall be brought into compliance with all of the provisions of this Chapter, and all other applicable city laws • Section 1163.19 entitled "Illuminated Signs" subsections (b) and (c) were stricken and (a) reads as follows: "(a) glare into or upon any residential property or into the right-of-way. " • Section 1163.26 "Ground Signs" subsection (b-5) to read as follows: "(5) If the vertical dimension of a ground sign is greater than the horizontal dimension, the sign shall not exceed eight (8) feet in height, measured from the street upon which the sign faces, or the ground level where the sign is affixed, whichever is higher." • Section 1163.26 entitled "Ground Signs" subsection (6) was stricken in its entirety. • Section 1163.27 entitled "Wall Signs" subsection (a) to read as follows: "(a) 'wall sign' as regulated by this ordinance, shall mean all signs which are attached to the exterior front, rear, or side wall of any building or other structure, or are painted directly on the wall or other part of the structure." • Section 1163.27 "Wall Signs", entitled "Wall Signs" subsection (2) to read as follows: "(2) No wall sign shall extend more than fourteen (14) inches from the surface or wall to which it is attached. No wall sign shall extend above the top or ends of the wall to which it is attached. No wall sign shall cover or obscure any wall opening." • Section 1163.26 entitled "Ground Signs" subsection (3) to read as follows: "(3) No ground sign may exceed sixty-five (65) square feet in the sign face area." • Section 1163.33 entitled "Signage Great Northern Mall and Plazas North and South" was stricken in its entirety from the ordinance. • A provision which would read as follows at Section 4 of the ordinance: "That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law but shall no longer be enforced and shall terminate without further action of this Council on and after the one year anniversary of the date upon which it first takes effect and is in force." (The Planning Commission recommended that the effective time period be changed to six months.) The Committee-of--the-Whole unanimously agreed to incorporate the recommendations and suggestions of the Planning Commission into the ordinance. A second motion was made to remove the provision that the ordinance be effective for only six months after passage. After discussion, 3