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THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM |

FEB 17 1986

MEMORANDUM

B.R. Kirk February 7, 1986
City Administrator

W. Brown
Director of Community Planni

Sign Bviaw

RECOMMENDATION: That City Counci adopt the following
recommendations

That the Sign Bylaw not be amended to authorize the use of
portable signs.

That City Counci! reaffirm the practice of allowing new
businesses to display a portable sign up to 30 davs.

That City Counci| direct staff to start a ciean up campaign
for Expo, The initiative would include sending letters To
businesses asking them to clean up around their premises,
followed by enforcement of City bviaws. ,
That the Minister of Highways be requested to direct his
‘staff To remove portable signs that fal! under jurisdiction
of the Controlled Access Highway Act.

Comments:

The remaining portable signs are clustered along Lougheed
Highway near Shaughnessy Street, It appears the initiative -to
reconsider the City's pronibition of the use of portable signs
is the remaining signs are difficult to remove.

This report is recommending that portable signs continue to be
prohibited. The basis for that recommendation is that portabie
signs give the City a cluttered and messy appearance. Also,
permitting use of portable signs sould be counter to the City's
recent efforts to improve the image of the community.

As mentioned above, the scale of the problem of businesses
using portabie signs is small. An interasting side note to
this is that most of the businesses using portaole signs ara on
properties where there is a history of problems.

tn discussing the Sign Bylaw during its introduction, City
Council addressed the probiam of accommodating new businesses
that do not have signage and need additional exposure to start
up. The practice set by City Council at that time was to allow
new businesses up to 350 days te use a portable sign. The

rationale for that direction was to permit new companies time
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