FEBRUARY 22, 2019, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A7
City’s wall sign falls victim
to planned message board
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
It’s likely not often that a
city fi nds itself stumbling over
the sign code it established,
but this is Keizer.
The biggest issue on the
Keizer City Council’s agen-
da Tuesday, Feb. 19, was how
to avoid running afoul of the
city’s sign ordinances while
fulfi lling a long-term goal of
installing an electronic mes-
sage board outside the Keizer
Civic Center.
For several years, the city
has been socking away money,
during budget season, to cov-
er the expense. But a problem
reared its head when fi guring
out how much space the city
would be allowed for the sign
under the city’s sign code.
A wall sign on the north
side of the building already
reads “City of Keizer” and
“City Hall | Police | Com-
munity Center,” and takes
up roughly 40 square feet of
the city’s 48-square-foot al-
lowance. That would mean
an electronic message board
could only take up an addi-
tional eight square feet and
leave it mostly unreadable
from a moderate distance.
On one hand, the city
might have applied for a
variance, even City Manager
Chris Eppley wondered the
same thing when two other
city offi cials presented him
with the problem and coun-
seled against it.
“The thing is that the sign
code is an emotional issue for
businesses in this communi-
ty and providing ourselves a
variance when we might not
allow others is … unseemly,”
Eppley told city councilors.
Community Development
Director Nate Brown added
that the city would not be able
to justify a variance in such a
way that it might survive a
challenge.
That left the council with
three other options. Nix the
idea of a message board com-
pletely, opt for a smaller –
all-but-unreadable – message
board, or modify the wall sign
and repurpose square footage
gain for the message board.
None of the councilors
wanted to forego the sign, and
a small message board was a
non-starter, which means the
the lower potion of the wall
sign, denoting the types of
facilities in the civic center,
will be removed to more than
double the space available for
the electronic message board.
The new, electronic sign will
be 17.5-square-foot message
board and an estimate from
Salem Sign Co. places the cost
at $27,650.
City offi cials are consider-
ing two spots for the place-
ment in front of the Chemawa
Road entrance or closer to the
driveway leading to the rear of
the building.
Now that the decision is
made, Eppley will still have
to apply for a conditional use
permit with the Keizer Plan-
ning Department. The portion
of the sign being removed
from the north side of the
building might make a return
appearance on another wall
of the building – only front-
age-facing signs count against
its sign code allowance.
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