CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Concur with the recommended parameters of the Ogden Avenue Pole Sign Replacement Grant Program and pass the resolution authorizing certain relief from Section 6-16-5 (Signs on Commercial and Institutional Property).
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DEPARTMENT: Transportation, Engineering and Development
SUBMITTED BY: Allison Laff, AICP, Deputy Director
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
Not required.
BACKGROUND:
Under new business at the April 17, 2018 City Council meeting, Councilman Coyne directed staff to develop options that may be used to eliminate non-conforming pole signs along East Ogden Avenue (from Washington Street to the City's eastern boundary). At their September 4, 2018 meeting, City Council reviewed a series of options prepared by staff pertaining to pole signs; at the conclusion of their discussion, City Council recommended that staff further review the potential options with the Chamber of Commerce and Ogden Avenue property owners. As directed, City and Naperville Development Partnership (NDP) staff attended the Chamber's Legislative Forum on September 26, 2018 to discuss pole signs, as well as other Ogden Avenue historic and proposed initiatives.
Based on general support for incentives to encourage the voluntary removal of non-conforming pole signs located along Ogden Avenue, City Council approved $30,000 in funding in the 2019 budget to create an Ogden Avenue Pole Sign Replacement Grant Program.
DISCUSSION:
While pole signs have been prohibited along Ogden Avenue since 2008, approximately 49 existing non-conforming pole signs remain along this corridor today. Ogden Avenue property owners who currently have a pole sign on their property were invited to meet with staff from the City and Naperville Development Partnership on April 23 and April 25, 2019 to help determine what aspects of a grant program would be most beneficial to them.
Using feedback gained from the 9 property owner meetings held, City and NDP staff re...
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