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Item # 6.b.

City Council (FY24)

Meeting Date:	05/28/2024
Department:	Development Services

AGENDA CAPTION:

Present, discuss and consider action on a request for a Meritorious Exception to Chapter 62 of the Code of Ordinances for Trinity Christian Academy, a school located at 17001 Addison Road, to allow installation of six flagpoles and flags. (Case MR2024-03/17001 Addison Road – Trinity Christian Academy)

BACKGROUND:

Trinity Christian Academy is making several improvements to its existing baseball and softball fields and has requested a Meritorious Exception to the Sign Ordinance to allow the installation of three flagpoles with flags at each field. Section 62-148 of the Sign Ordinance limits each premises to three flagpoles with a maximum 30 feet in height. The maximum allowed size of a flag is 40 square feet. The ordinance does allow consideration of a meritorious exception for flags that exceed these height and size provisions.

Meritorious exceptions to the Sign Ordinance are allowed under the following provision:

Town of Addison Code of Ordinances, Chapter 62 (Signs)
- Section 62-33. – Meritorious exceptions.
  - (d)(3) The council may consider appeals on the basis that such regulations and/or standards will, by reason of exceptional circumstances or surroundings, constitute a practical difficulty or unnecessary hardship or on the basis that the proposed improvement although falling under the definition of a “sign”, constitutes art that makes a positive contribution to the visual environment.

Staff believes that the hardship criteria of the meritorious exception requirements have been met for the proposed number of flags. The ordinance is intended to prohibit excessive numbers of flags at one location or along a street or thoroughfare. The baseball and softball fields are not adjacent but are separated by a large parking lot, limiting the visual impact of the flags.

RECOMMENDATION:

Administration recommends approval.

Attachments
MR2024-03 Presentation
MR2024-03 Ordinance
MR2024-03 Plans