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Planning commission narrows approach to sign rules: 60-day temporary limit, consider percentage-based allowances
Summary
After extended review of draft definitions and temporary-sign rules, the Planning and Zoning Commission directed staff to rework the signage ordinance using percentage-based sign allowances, discussed a 60-calendar-day limit for temporary signs, and suggested limits on balloon signs and permitting for certain sidewalk signs.
Chesapeake Beach planning commissioners spent the bulk of their May 28 meeting reviewing a broad redraft of the town's signage ordinance definitions and temporary-sign rules and directed staff to return with a revised format that emphasizes sign-type allowances and percentage-based size limits.
Planner Sarah Franklin said the draft had been reorganized to place definitions at the front and consolidate content-based rules. Commissioners worked line by line through definitions such as "alteration," "abandoned sign," "animated sign" and a long list of specialized sign types (balloon, banner, sandwich board/A-frame, changeable copy, electronic message center). Franklin and commissioners agreed that the definitions should be tightened and that…
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