O-2016-3145 - 1/14/2016 I ORDINANCE NO. 0-2016-3145
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4 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 30, SECTIONS 30-4 AND 30-8,
s CODE OF ORDINANCES (2010 EDITION), CITY OF ROUND ROCK,
6 TEXAS, REGARDING BUILDING SIGN STANDARDS AND TO ADD
7 THE DEFINITION OF "FASCIA MOUNTED SIGN"; AND PROVIDING
8 FOR A SAVINGS CLAUSE AND REPEALING CONFLICTING
9 ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS.
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11 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROUND ROCK,
12 TEXAS:
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14 That Chapter 30, Section 30-4, Code of Ordinances (2010 Edition), City of Round
15 Rock, Texas, is hereby amended to add the definition of "Fascia Mounted Sign" to read
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17 Sec. 30-4. Definitions.
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19 The following words and phrases used in this chapter shall have the following meanings:
20 Fascia mounted sign. Any sign erected on the fascia of a building. For the purposes of this Chapter
21 30, a fascia mounted sign is considered to be a type of wall sign,
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24 That Chapter 30, Section 30-4, Code of Ordinances (2010 Edition), City of Round
25 Rock, Texas, is hereby amended to amend the definition of "Wall Sign" to read as
26 follows:
27 Sec. 30-4. Definitions.
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29 The following words and phrases used in this chapter shall have the following meanings:
30 Wall sign. Any sign, erected flush against an exterior wall, supported by the wall, and having the sign
31 I face parallel to the wall or painted directly onto a wall. For the purposes of this Chapter 30, a fascia
32 mounted sign is considered to be a type of wall sign.
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2 That Chapter 30, Section 30-8(b), Code of Ordinances (2010 Edition), City of
Round Rock, Texas, is hereby amended to read as follows:
4 Sec. 30-8. Building sign standards.
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6 (b) Wall signs.
Wall Signs
Building Criteria Building shall have a plane that can accommodate the placement of a sign.
Number,Amount of When maximum square footage of sign display area for wall signs is less than 100 square feet,
Building an additional ten square feet of sign display area of wall signs,hanging or projecting signs,or
Signage/Items of awning/canopy signs shall be permitted.Regardless of the length of frontage,the
Information owner/occupant is entitled to a sign of at least 20 square feet.
Sharing
Not Special Property
Commercial Neighborhood Facing a '
Freeway Line with
Road Road Public Area- I
Sign Size By Road
ROW I OS;DT SF or TF
Type or Special Zoned Lot
Area per Occupant Maximum I
Frontage(Amount square feet of 300 200 F75 none 40 0
allowed shall be sign display area
i whichever Square feet of
measurement is less)
sign display area
per one linear 2.50 2.0 1.50 1 ( 1 0
foot of occupant
frontage
A distance of no less than ten percent of the smallest dimension of the sign display area of a
Placement(on wall sign shall be provided around the entire sign display area and from any architectural
building) features.The height of a fascia mounted sign shall not exceed the peak of a pitched roof or the
ton of a parapet of a flat roof.
Internally lit tag lines and pan-faced signs shall be permitted as wall signs.All surfaces of a
shall be finished. Signs shall be mounted to a building so that the attachment device shall
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not be visible or discernible.Wall signs shall be constructed of a rigid material. Wall signs
exceeding 16 square feet of sign display area shall not be a single,flat surface.
Lighting Internal illumination shall be permitted with the exception of in OS and DT special areas.
External illumination and illumination by halation are permitted.
Electronic
Messaging Not permitted.
Center(EMC)
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10 A. All ordinances, parts of ordinances, or resolutions in conflict herewith are
11 expressly repealed.
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I B. The invalidity of any section or provision of this ordinance shall not
2 invalidate other sections or provisions thereof.
3 C. The City Council hereby finds and declares that written notice of the date,
4 hour, place and subject of the meeting at which this Ordinance was adopted was posted
s and that such meeting was open to the public as required by law at all times during
6 which this Ordinance and the subject matter hereof were discussed, considered and
7 formally acted upon, all as required by the Open Meetings Act, Chapter 551, Texas
s Government Code, as amended.
9 Alternative 1.
10 By motion duly made, seconded and passed with an affirmative vote of all the
11 Council members present, the requirement for reading this ordinance on two separate
12 days was dispensed with.
13 READ, PASSED, and ADOPTED on first reading this day of
14 -JR 12016.
15 Alternative 2.
16 READ and APPROVED on first reading this the day of
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18 READ, APPROVED and ADOPTED on second reading this the day of
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22 ALAN MCGRAW, Mayor
23 City of Round Rock, Texas
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25 ATTEST:
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28 SARA L. WHITE, City Clerk
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