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40 Regular Meeting January 13,1986 Fage 3 Ivar Gunnarson stated he agreed with the comments of Jeff Hill and that he has gone along with the moratorium although he has made requests for variances which the City has denied. L. E. Dupont stated a 260- foot billboard was of insufficient size for people to read and digest the contents of signs. In his opinion travelers down IH35 to points North and South are more likely to be traveling through our City rather than have plans to come to our City, and the size of the billboard needs to be of sufficient size for businesses to put a message that would change the traveler's mind to come to San Marcos. He recommends the City accept the Chamber's version of the sign ordinance in relation to size of billboards: 480 square feet. Shirley Wickersham advised the Council there were three businesses in town who make a living from sign~ and that she hoped the Council would not put them out of business with too restrictive an ordinance. Tom Allen furnished the Council with a written report. Jay Moore advised the Council tourism to our City would be affected by the Ordinance as now written. Rich Westfall of Aquarena Springs stated information received by tourists to our City is obtained from signs, and that in a survey he received billboards are the leading response that attracts tourists to Aquarena. Bud Walker complimented the Planning and Zoning Commissions for their endurance and urged the Council that a sign ordinance will affect the business community economically and hopes they will adopt an ordinance that will be fair and equitable. Billy Moore stated the City's sign Ordinance and the Chamber's are different, and that he is more concerned with the placement of signs than he is what materials are used to cons'truct them, more concerned withaesthetics. He stated he did not think that either ordinance would affect San Marcos economically. Carroll Shaddock of Billboards, Ltd. of Houston stated San Antonio has a moratorium on billboards in effect. He stated under State law a City cannot remove signs on or off-premise without compensation therefor. He stated the principal consideration before the Council was for the Council to look at what they want the future of the City to be. Roger Storey stated as a franchised dealer he was "told" what size his signs would be, and that the City's Ordinance would drastically affect his business. He reminded the Council this Ordinance as now written would affect persons who make their livings here and pay taxes to this City. He offered as a compromise the adoption of the Chamber's proposal. No one else wished to speak, so Mayor Craddock closed the public hearing. Mayor Craddock moved to table first reading of the City's Sign Ordinance so that a compromise could be negotiated between the two proposed Sign Ordinances and appointed Lamar Hankins, Frank Robbins, Jeff Hill and John Diaz to a Committee to negotiate. She directed an Ordinance be prepared and presented to the Council at the January 27 meeting to extend the mora- torium to Pebruary 28 and requested first reading of the negotiated Ordinance be February 17 or as soon thereafter as possible. Mr. Farr seconded the motion, which passed unanimously. Jim Gandy of the Chamber of Commerce stated they were in favor of the extension of the moratorium to February 28. Mayor Craddock introduced a public hearing and adoption of a Resolution, the caption which was read as follows: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OP SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, AMENDING THE FUTURE LAND USE PLAN (MAP) OF THE MASTER PLAN OF SAID CITY, FOR 4.51 ACRES OF LAND OUT OF THE L. GLASSGOW SURVEY, HAYS COUNTY, TEXAS, BEING A PORTION OF THAT 9.37 ACRE TRACT OF LAND CONVEYED TO FRANK HOCH BY WELDON SCHLAMEUS, BY DEED DATED JANUARY 24, 1953, AND RECORDED IN VOLUME 155, PAGE 196, HAYS COUNTY DEED RECORDS, LOCATED WITHOUT THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF SAN MARCOS, BUT WITHIN SAID CITY'S TWO (2) MILE EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION AND LOCATED ON RANCH ROAD 12, FROM "LD" (LOW DENSITY RESIDENTII~L) TO "c" (COM- MERCIAL) AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.