12-10-1987 Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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. r • • ' ~LANNING & ZONING MINUTES DECEMBER 10, 1987 PAGE 3 Mark Williams, Owner of Sylvan Drugs: More research necessary on the portables signs, HL&P requirements and freestanding and roof signs. His personal concerns-ordinance will decrease new businesses coming into the La Porte area; the sign above the roof at his store is considered a non-conforming sign and would cost him an excessive amount of money to replace it from storm damage according to the proposed sign ordinance; each merchant should be able to have at least one on site sign. Joe Camp Jr., Joe Camp Ford: Portable signs are very successful for his business due to interest rates and rebates changing almost daily. Without this type of advertisement, revenues for his dealership would drop drastically. He is no longer advertising on billboards mainly because of the cost involved to maintain them but feels they are necessary. He has a roof top sign on the rent car building approximately 40 to 45 feet off the road and has been very effective. For the month of November, a survey was taken by Joe Camp Ford and results are as follows: 50X of business based on location 23~ of business based on referrals 13~ of business based on past customers 6~ of business based on employees 2~ of business based on friends 3~ of business based on phone After taking this survey, he relates the signage to his location which is the reason for such a high percentage. He further states that when Ford Motor Company comes to do an on site survey, Joe Camp Ford is required to have certain signs of certain size on their premises in order to maintain their franchise. More research necessary. Janet Warhlich~ Gray n rpr~ses: Addressed over regulation on signs. Only necessary to deal with certain sign areas that need more regulation and not all of them. Specifically, General Homes need signs to inform people where to buy their houses. At this time General Homes are permitted to advertise with a Temporary Sign Permit for a limited amount of time that the Development is selling houses. She objects to the removal of temporary .signs and feels they should be able to keep their signs until all of the homes are sold by changing the 90~ to 100 subdivision built out. She feels that signs which are damaged by weather conditions should not have to be replace with different signage and should be Belt with on a case by case basis. She is in agreement with removing portable signs off of vacant properties. .Tz~y Spradling., ~~02 Valley Brook: He is in favor of a sign ordinance and opposes portable signs because they are mostly located in the wrong • areas and are not well maintained.