Homewood City committee schedules June 24 public hearings for two commercial sign-variance requests

The Homewood City Special Issues Committee on June 3 set public hearings for two commercial sign-variance requests, sending both applications out “without recommendation” pending the hearings.

The committee voted to schedule hearings for June 24 at 6 p.m. for a proposed wall sign at 817 Green Springs Highway and for a logo/image variance at 190 Bulan Road. The meetings will be held in the City Council chambers (the room adjacent to the committee’s meeting space), where applicants may present signage images to the public and committee.

The 817 Green Springs Highway request was filed by Edge / Candace Watson Signage Inc. and represented at the meeting by company representatives. The applicant described the planned wall sign as internally illuminated and stated the proposed letter/image height is 64.5 inches. Committee members discussed that the ordinance limits letter/image height; the transcript does not clearly record the numeric maximum for that specific item.

For the 190 Bulan Road application, submitted for Birmingham Luxury Motors and represented by Signarama and company representatives, the applicant said the logo/image height would be 53.7 inches. The transcript records the committee citing an ordinance maximum of 36 inches for letter/image height.

Procedurally, the committee moved to send both items out without a recommendation and to set a public hearing for June 24. The motions were made and seconded during the meeting and approved by the committee.

Next steps: both applications will be the subject of public hearings on June 24 at 6 p.m.; the committee will consider public comment and any additional information at those hearings before making final recommendations or decisions.