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Home My WebLink AboutItem 04 - AM03-06 Zoning Ordinance AmendmentsCc ins 0 MEMO TO: HONORABLE MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION FROM: ROGER NELSON, CITY MANAGER/W H.T. HARDY, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICESAA MEETING DATE: JANUARY 20, 2004 SUBJECT: ZONING ORDINANCE AMENDMENT AM03-06, AMENDMENT TO SECTION 36, "PCD" PLANNED COMMERCE DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT RELATIVE TO SIGNAGE FOR HOTELS IN EXCESS OF 500 ROOMS RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council consider the proposed zoning ordinance amendment to Section 36, "PCD" Planned Commerce Development District relative to signage for hotels in excess of 500 rooms and take any action necessary. BACKGROUND: Section 60, Sign Standards establishes standard guidelines for signage in each zoning district within the City. The size, type, height, dimension, setback and number of signs allowed is strictly enforced. A sign permit, issued by the Building Inspections Department is required before any regulated sign can be placed on a given site. Given the unique signage needs for hotels in excess of 500 rooms, Staff recommends that hotels of this size be allowed to vary from the standard signage requirements established in Section 60. Similar to the method used for establishing the signage needs for the Grapevine Mills Mall, hotels in excess of 500 rooms will submit a signage package that will be considered by the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council in it's entirety. The Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center on Lake Grapevine comprises some 1,508 rooms and nearly 400,000 square feet of convention center space with numerous points of entry and exit to the hotel and convention areas. Directional signage is of key importance to ensuring that patrons of the hotel and convention areas can find their way. Directional signage as well as entry way signage to the site are specific examples of signage that do not fit within any of the categories currently established within Section 60. See the attached amendment and signage examples. /rs OAZWAM03-06.4 January 11, 2004 (2:52PM) DRAFT COPY 01-20-04 0 Section 36. PCD Planned Commerce Development District A. PREAMBLE: The Planned Commerce Development (PCD) District is designed to accommodate commercial, noise -proof industrial and commercial and low intensity office -commercial development in accordance with the Comprehensive Master Plan. The district provides for two (2) methods of development: STANDARD DEVELOPMENT permits commercial development subject to the same restrictions as apply in the CC Community Commercial District on tracts of at least two (2) acres in size, and hotel development exceeding five hundred (500) guest rooms subject to the same restrictions as apply in the HCO Hotel/Corporate Office District and hotel development of five hundred (500) guest rooms or less approved pursuant to a conditional use permit subject to the same restriction as apply in the HCO Hotel/Corporate Office District and any additional restrictions included in the conditional use permit. In the event of a conflict between the HCO requirements and the requirements included in the conditional use permit the requirements in the conditional use permit shall prevail. Due to the unique development requirements of hotels exceeding five hundred (500) rooms, it is generally recognized that the requirements established in Section 60, Sign Standards may be difficult to provide The Planning and Zoning Commission may recommend and the City Council may approve a request to vary from the standards established in Section 60 when appropriate. - 2. PLANNED DEVELOPMENT is an optional form of development which may be permitted provided an applicant submits and the City Council approved a Master Development Plan for the property. In a planned commercial development, mixed commercial developments are permitted. B. PURPOSE: The purpose of the standard form of development in the PCD District is to permit an owner, as a matter of right, to develop retail space and commercial uses on lots not less than two (2) acres in area. The purpose of the Optional Planned Development methods, within the PCD District is to provide a method for the coordination of retail, office, hotel, commercial, and similar uses in a park like setting. Approval of the Planned Development Option will provide a mechanism to achieve development which will contribute to the diversification of the City's economic base in a manner consistent with the Comprehensive Master Plan. The purpose of the PCD District is to provide a unique new zone for the 012004 1 Section 36 ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 82-73, THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, SAME BEING ALSO KNOWN AS APPENDIX "D" OF THE CITY CODE, BY PROVIDING FOR AMENDMENTS AND CHANGES TO ZONING REGULATIONS BY AMENDING SECTION 36, "PCD" PLANNED COMMERCE DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT; PROVIDING A PENALTY NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM OF TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS ($2,000.00) AND A SEPARATE OFFENSE SHALL BE DEEMED COMMITTED UPON EACH DAY DURING OR ON WHICH A VIOLATION OCCURS; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS: Section 1. That Ordinance No. 82-73, the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the City of Grapevine, Texas, same being also known as Appendix "D" of the City Code is hereby amended in the following particulars, and all other sections, subsections, paragraphs, definitions, words and phrases of said Appendix "D" and not amended but hereby ratified, verified, and affirmed: A. That Section 36, "PCD" Planned Commerce Development District is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph to Subsection A.1 Preamble, Standard Development to read as follows: "Due to the unique development requirements of hotels exceeding five hundred (500) rooms, it is generally recognized that the requirements established in Section 60, Sign Standards may be difficult to provide. The Planning and Zoning Commission may recommend and the City Council may approve a request to vary from the standards established in Section 60 when appropriate." Section 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not to exceed Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) and a separate offense shall be deemed committed upon each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues. Section 3. If any section, article, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word in this ordinance, or application thereto any person or circumstances is held invalid or unconstitutional by a Court or competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance; and the City Council hereby declares it would have passed such remaining portions of the ordinance despite such invalidity, which remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect. Section 4. The fact that the present ordinances and regulations of the City of Grapevine, Texas, are inadequate to properly safeguard the health, safety, morals, peace and general welfare of the inhabitants of the City of Grapevine, Texas, creates an emergency for the immediate preservation of the public business, property, health, safety and general welfare of the public which requires that this ordinance shall become effective from and after the date of its final passage, and it is accordingly so ordained. PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS on this the 20th day of January, 2004. ATTEST: ORD. 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