14.08.150 Special provisions.
A. Signs Urgently Needed. Any sign deemed by the city clerk to be urgently needed due to undue economic hardship upon the applicant may be allowed temporarily by the city clerk, upon submittal of an application for a sign permit for the sign, until such time as the appropriate approving authority approves or denies application. In the event such application is ultimately denied, any such sign erected pursuant to this subsection shall be removed within fifteen days from the date of such denial.
B. Additional Signing Allowing Use Permit. The planning commission may, pursuant to this section, by way of a use permit sign request, allow additional sign types, number of signs, size of signs, and number of locations. To obtain a sign permit under a use permit sign request, the application procedure shall be the same as required by Section 14.08.020 of this chapter, except that the applicant must submit a statement supporting the request for the additional signing. Criteria for additional signing may include large parcel size, unusual configuration or location, size of buildings, location of the building on the parcel, or unique qualities of the use of the parcel, any of which must relate to the finding which shall be required of the planning commission that the additional .signing will not be contrary to the intent of this chapter or the public interest, safety, health and welfare. The amount of the application fee for a use permit sign request shall be as set by resolution of the city council.
C. Commercial Center Identification.
1. Each commercial center having three or more independent businesses shall be allowed one freestanding identification sign if the center is smaller than ten acres, or two such signs if between ten and twenty acres. Centers larger than twenty acres shall be allowed the number of signs deemed adequate by the planning commission by approval of a sign request use permit as heretofore provided in subsection B of this section.
2. The allowable sign area for each sign shall not exceed one hundred square feet in area. Each such sign shall not exceed the height limitation for the zone in which it is located.
3. Such signs shall be restricted to identification of the name and address of the center and may be externally or internally illuminated.
4. The wall sign of each business located within a commercial center shall not exceed twenty percent of the square footage of any building face enclosing such business.
D. Transfer of Sign Area. In any event where an applicant foregoes the right to a sign pursuant to Section 14.44.010, fifty percent of the allowable freestanding sign area may be added to otherwise allowed signs for the parcel or property or business complex. (Ord. 89-3 (part), 1989)