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Home My WebLink About4795 oRDIN ,Nc}; No. qTqS' AN ORDINANCE of the Bremerton City Council amending the Zoning Code, Chapter 21.02.330(k) (Sign Provisions) of the Bremerton Municipal Code, by adding a new section to create an automobile dealership sign district and to create a provision for automobile dealership group identification signs pursuant to certain conditions including an approved signage master plan. WItEREAS, The Haselwood Auto Group has filed an application for Zoning Text Amendment requesting an amendment to the zoning text that would allow signage to identify multiple auto dealership groups; and WItEREAS, existing sign regulations encourage multiple signs directing attention to multiple vehicle dealerships, creating uncoordinated individual signs and visual clutter; and WHEREAS, it is in the public interest to encourage coordination of signage for dealerships pursuant to a master plan approach; and WHEREAS, a majority of Bremerton's auto dealerships are located in the area located west of SR 3, south of Kitsap Way, and north of SR 3/304, making it feasible to create an "Automobile Dealership Sign District; and WHIgREAS, allowing owners of two or more dealership franchises within that district to have a single sign to identify the dealership group, subject to certain conditions including limitations on total sign area, sign orientation, and a requirement for a Signage Master Plan is likely to result in improved coordination and reduced proliferation of signs; and WHEREAS, such coordination and control of signage is supported by the Comprehensive Plan; and WHEREAS, The Bremerton Planning Commission, during their regularly scheduled meeting on January 15, 2002, determined that this amendment request was consistent with the Comprehensive Plan and with the City's Development Regulations Amendment criteria, which is contained in BMC 21.02.925, adopted Findings and Conclusions in support of its recommendation to approve this Development Regulations Amendment; and WHEREAS, The Bremerton City Council conducted a public hearing on April 10, 2002 to accept public comments pertaining to the proposed Development Regulation Amendment to consider the Planning Commission recommendation; NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Bremerton Municipal Code Section 21.02.330(k) is hereby amended by adding a new sub-section to read as follows: (3) Automobile Dealership Sign Provisions. i. This subsection designates the area bounded by Kitsap Way on the north, SR 3 on the east, Harlow Drive/Auto Center Boulevard/Union Avenue/3rd Street on the west, and the intersection of SR 3 and SR 304 on the south as the Automobile Dealership Sign District. ii. No regulation in the Automobile Dealership Sign District shall be interpreted to obviate any of the other provisions of the Bremerton Zoning Code, Chapter 21.02 BMC, that are applicable to a given property or proposal. iii. Automobile dealers in the district listed in (i) above may erect one sign identifying the dealership group and the brands of vehicles sold in the group, subject to the following provisions: a. Two or more franchises under common ownership constitute a dealership group. b. The total area ora group identification sign shall not exceed fifty (50) square feet for each dealer franchise in the group. c. No group identification sign shall be more than one hundred fifty (150) square feet if mounted on a pole, or two hundred (200) square feet if mounted on the ground. d. The square footage of any group identification sign shall be deducted from the total signage allotment of the parcel upon which the sign is placed. e. Group identification signs shall front on an arterial street. All dealers shall be required to submit a signage master plan for all dealerships in a dealership group prior to the approval of a group identification sign. SECTION 2. Severability. If any one or more sections, subsections, or sentences of this Ordinance are held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of this Ordinance and the same shall remain in full force and effect. SECTION 3. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force ten (10) days from and after its passage, approval and publication as provided by law. APPROVED by the City Council the~ day of ~,~,.~_., ,2002 PASSED by the City Council the__~__, day of ~:'~g~; ,2002 CAROL ARENDS, Council President Approved this ,~X.; day of ~ ,2002 Mayor ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM: KATI-[LEEN MCCLUSKEY,kCity Clerk ~)~ER~UBOVIC:~, City Attorney AFFIDA VIT OF PUBLICATION County of Kitsap, State of Washington No.100000618 I, Melinda Monroe, being first duly sworn on oath, deposes and says: That she is now, and at all times embraced in the publication herein mentioned was the principal clerk of the printers and publishers of THE SUN; that said newspaper has been approved as a legal newspaper by order of the /superior Court of the Count of Kitsap, in which County it is published and is now and has been for more than six months prior to the date of the publication hereinafter referred to, published in the English language continually as a daily newspaper in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, and is now and during all of said time, was printed in an office maintained in the aforesaid place of publication of said newspaper; that the following is a true text of a legal advertisement as it waspublished in regular issues (and not in supplement form) of said newspaper on the following dates, to wit: April 27, 2002 during all of said period. 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'\ 0 ~ /// "'1SHING \",- 111/, \\\\ 'lfIJI/III\\\\\\ AN ORDINANCE of the Bremerton City Council amending the Zoning Code, Chapter 21.02.330(k) (Sign Provisions) of the Bremerton Municipal Code, by adding a new section to create an automobile dealership sign district and to create a provision for automobile dealership group identification signs pursuant to certain conditions including an approved signage master plan.- L)l~ ~ '1Y~V\~ (Signature of Principal Clerk) Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of May 2, 2002. ij!1J Ij7LJ N it ik/ Notary Public in and for the State of Washington, Kitsap County. ORDINANCE NO. 4795' APPROVED by the City Council the 10th day of April, 2002.- PASSED by the City Council the 17th day of April, 2002.- The full text of this ordinance is available from the City Clerk's Office, 239 Fourth Street, Bremerton, WA 98337.- April 27,