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TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1988 <br /> <br />certain dimensions on awnings, subject to certain controls set forth by the <br />Planning Commission. There being no objections to this proposal (and the <br />proposed amendments) registered by any citizen, Mayor Oakesdeclared this public <br />hearing closed; whereupon motion, duly seconded and unanimously tarried, Council <br />adopted the following ordinance (identified as Ordinance No. 88-2) effecting the <br />proposed amendments, making said ordinance effective January 27, 1988, by <br />attaching an emergency clause thereto: <br /> <br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in <br />regular meeting assembled this twenty-sixth day of January,-1988, that <br />Section X (Signs) and Section VI (Dimension Regulations) of the Zoning <br />Ordinance of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, be--and they hereby <br />are--amended, as follows: <br /> <br />The word "awning" in Section X, Part B (Definitions), is <br />hereby defined as: a roof-like covered structure (of <br />flexible or rigid material) attached to and extending <br />beyond the building wall. <br /> <br />Paragraph 3 of Part E in Section X (Signs Prohibited In All <br />Districts), reading, "Any sign on an awning which is not a <br />marquee", is hereby deleted. <br /> <br />The third sentence of Paragraph 5a, C-2 District, Section <br />X, Sub-Section D (Signs Permitted In Districts), is hereby <br />amended to read: <br /> <br />In lieu of a separate sign, letters may be engraved <br />in the surface of a building, or separate carved <br />letters may be attached to the face of a building; <br />and, in addition to the foregoing, signs on marquees <br />and awnings, as defined in Section X, Part B, are <br />permitted, provided that the total combined area of <br />all signs shall not exceed three (3) square feet for <br />each linear foot of building frontage occupied by a <br />single business. <br /> <br />4. To the second paragraph of Section VI (Dimension <br /> Regulations), (B)(2), there shall be added the following: <br /> <br />In addition to Building Code requirements, in no case <br />shall such awnings extend over a sidewalk so as to <br />block or interfere with public facilities, including <br />but not limited to street signs, utility poles, street <br />trees and planters, and traffic control signs, in <br />accordance with guidelines used by the City's <br />Engineering and Inspection Divisions. <br /> <br /> <br />