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Description
Ordinance No. 2024-03 comprehensively amends Chapter 74 of the Town of Orchid Land Development Regulations governing signs. The Ordinance replaces the Town’s prior sign regulations with updated standards addressing permanent and temporary signs, sign location, size, design, illumination, maintenance, prohibited signs, permitting, exemptions, and review procedures. The regulations are intended to reflect current state and federal constitutional requirements concerning sign regulation while preserving content-neutral standards. The Ordinance also establishes standards intended to reduce sign clutter, protect traffic and pedestrian safety, preserve community aesthetics and property values, and ensure signs are safely constructed and maintained. The public purpose of the Ordinance is to modernize the Town’s sign regulations, promote effective and equitable communication, protect the Town’s natural and visual character, enhance public safety and wayfinding, and regulate signage in a manner consistent with constitutional free-speech protections.
Official Caption
An ordinance of the Town of Orchid, Indian River County, Florida, amending land development regulations, Chapter 74 – Signs of the Code of Ordinances of the Town of Orchid; providing for ratification, amendment of the Code of Ordinances, codification, severability, conflict, and an effective date.
Business Impact Estimate
Pursuant to Section 166.041(4)(a), Florida Statutes, the Town of Orchid has prepared the following Business Impact Estimate for the proposed ordinance. This estimate is intended to summarize the ordinance and its public purpose, and to identify, in good faith, any anticipated direct economic impacts on private, for-profit businesses, including compliance costs, new charges or fees, municipal regulatory costs or revenues, and the estimated number of businesses likely to be affected. Please feel free to email the Town Manager or call at (772) 581-2770 with any questions about this ordinance or estimate. You are encouraged to attend the public hearing to be heard by the Town Council in advance of the ordinance's adoption.
Anticipated Impacts
- No direct impact on private, for-profit businesses is anticipated
- No compliance costs are reasonably likely to be incurred
- No new charges or fees are introduced in this ordinance
- Estimated municipal regulatory costs associated with this ordinance: $0
- Estimate of the number of private, for-profit businesses likely to be impacted: 0
Posting/Notice Dates
- Caption posted: 09/05/2024
- Business Impact Estimate posted: 09/30/2024
- Newspaper notice published: 10/28/2024