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Advisors urge clearer sign and facade application checklist to speed reviews
Summary
Staff and board advisers recommended a standardized intake checklist for sign and facade applications — requesting scale drawings, color/manufacturer details, bracket specs, parcel snippets and a hard checklist to keep incomplete applications from coming to the agenda.
Planning staff and board advisers spent the pre‑meeting period debating how to make sign and facade permit packets easier for small business applicants to prepare and for staff to review.
A set of recommended items emerged: dimensioned, to‑scale shop drawings or manufacturer shop drawings; color and material samples identified by manufacturer name; photos of the proposed sign location on the full facade; a simple parcel‑map snippet or Google/parcel access image; and a checklist that would block incomplete files from advancing to the agenda. One board member argued the intent was to save applicants "a month's time" when submissions are unclear.
Board members and staff said routine use of the checklist should reduce repeat appearances and phone calls while improving consistency across HDLO/facade and sign reviews. The group asked staff to draft a one‑page intake checklist and hyperlink key code sections on the city's online application portal for applicants who are not using professional designers.
