Signage | Town Center
8. Upholding the goals and policies of the Sammamish Comprehensive Plan and the Town Center Subarea Plan; and 9. Promoting signs within the Town Center that contribute to the character of the Town Center, are integrated with natural surroundings and landscaping, and exhibit an intimate human scale; and 10. Providing necessary signage to support central gathering places, increase social interaction, and encourage walkability; and 11. Regulating signs in a manner that is timely, flexible, predictable, fair to all and that results in superior development; and 12. Creating a vibrant and inviting commercial node that is reflected in the character and design of Town Center signage.
2. No permit shall be required for repainting in like colors, cleaning, or other normal maintenance and repair of a permitted sign, or of sign face and copy changes that do not alter the size or structure of the sign or compliance with the design standards.
D. Application information
The applicant shall have the burden of demonstrating that a proposed sign(s) complies with this chapter as follows: 1. All new signs requiring a permit or approval pursuant to SDC 21.07.090C. shall provide, in a form established by the City, at a minimum an accurate plan with complete dimensions, location, size, color, shape, materials, type of illumination, size and style of lettering, copy design and the proposed manner of installation. Additional information may be required as reasonably necessary for approval by the director. 2. The size and location of every existing sign on the premises shall be noted. 3. If a unified zone development plan was previously approved by the City and included sign approvals, an applicant whose sign conforms to that plan may refer to it in the application and may omit detailed drawings unless specifically requested to provide them. 4. If design and compatibility review is required pursuant to SDC 21.07.090H., the applicant shall submit a compatibility analysis addressing the design criteria enumerated in SDC 21.07.090M., Design and compatibility review.
B. Applicability
Except as provided for in SDC 21.07.090F., Exempt signs, all signs shall be subject to the design provisions of this chapter; provided, that specific sign standards and design requirements may be further established through a unified zone development or building permit review and shall be determined during the applicable review process.
C. Permit required
1. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no sign shall be erected, altered, or relocated within the Town Center without a permit issued by the City.
Effective | January 1, 2022
Title 21: Sammamish Development Code | 539
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