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Commission says Ridge Meadows sign issue is a sign-permit/administration matter; code prevents requested placement
Summary
The Planning and Zoning Commission revisited the Ridge Meadows subdivision sign request and determined that the sign-code and plat constraints mean the sign-permit process with city administration, not P&Z approval, is the appropriate path unless an easement at the subdivision entrance is secured.
The Planning and Zoning Commission revisited a previously tabled item, PZ2025-15, concerning a subdivision sign for Ridge Meadows and concluded that the request likely falls under the city’s sign-permit authority rather than the commission’s approval process.
Commissioners and staff said the city sign code expects subdivision monument signs to be located at a subdivision’s entrance. The proposed location discussed at the meeting is roughly 250 feet from the subdivision intersection and the plat did not include an easement or reservation for a monument sign at that location. Staff told the commission that installing the sign as proposed would require an easement and likely variances because it is not at the entrance, and that the code does not permit the placement as requested.
Planning staff described the distinction between a standard sign permit (administrative review by staff) and a subdivision monument (which could trigger preliminary-plan or plat-related review). Commissioners said that, because the proposal reads as a sign on private property rather than an entrance monument accounted for in the subdivision plat, the matter should proceed through the sign-permit process with administration unless the applicant secures an easement from property owners at the entrance or redesignates the sign as part of the preliminary plan.
The commission had previously un-tabled the Ridge Meadows item (motion to untable by Commissioner Love, seconded by Commissioner Weimer); after discussion, commissioners did not advance a P&Z approval, instead directing that the matter follows the sign-permit process or requires additional easements and possibly variances before the commission would act.
Staff recommended that if the subdivision’s builder can secure an easement from one of the entrance property owners to place the sign at the actual entrance, the commission could reconsider the sign as part of a plat or preliminary-plan process. No vote on a sign permit or variance was taken at this meeting.
