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Planning board recommends Farmington master sign program to Town Council
Summary
The Town of Harrisburg planning board voted to recommend a conditional-zoning amendment that would add a master sign program for the Farmington PUD, trading some ground-mounted sign allowances for larger, higher-quality entry and wayfinding signs and prohibiting electronic message boards except at the Harris Teeter fuel station.
The Town of Harrisburg Planning and Zoning Board voted March 19 to recommend approval to the Town Council of a conditional-zoning amendment that would add a master sign program for the Farmington planned unit development.
Shelley, a town planning staffer, told the board the proposal would not change uses or density in the roughly 185-acre, mixed-use Farmington development but would standardize sign design and clarify how overlapping underlying zoning applies across the portions that lie in Cabarrus and Mecklenburg counties. "This is a request to amend the Farmington plan unit development," Shelley said, adding that the program applies only to the commercial district and sets design, material and illumination standards.
Under the proposal, the applicant would accept limits intended to reduce sign clutter: staff reported…
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