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Fareway Foods was able to re-use the former Pamida pole sign because a sign application was made before the sign had been abandoned more than a year, said City Clerk Arnold Ehlers.
Under a 2003 comprehensive development and zoning ordinance, the city code allows wall-mounted, projecting and monumental signs in highway and downtown commerical zones, but says pole signs are prohibited in all zoning districts.
Existing signs are allowed to stay if there is continuous occupancy and continuous use.
Had the sign been unused for more than a year, Ehlers said, it would not be eligible for a new user and would have to come down.
This will impact the Alco sign on south 11th Street. The store was closed on Dec. 19, 2010 and has been closed 14 months.
Pamida closed on Jan. 25, 2010, and Fareway officially opened 22 months later on Oct. 26, 2011.
City commissioners amended the sign ordinance in July of 2010 and voted in March of 2011 to extend a six-month deadline for unused signs to a year.
Zoning Administrator Dan Giittinger said a sign can be re-used if the new business makes an application for the sign within a year.
Fareway Foods was able to re-use the former Pamida pole sign because a sign application was made before the sign had been abandoned more than a year, said City Clerk Arnold Ehlers.
Under a 2003 comprehensive development and zoning ordinance, the city code allows wall-mounted, projecting and monumental signs in highway and downtown commerical zones, but says pole signs are prohibited in all zoning districts.
Existing signs are allowed to stay if there is continuous occupancy and continuous use.
Had the sign been unused for more than a year, Ehlers said, it would not be eligible for a new user and would have to come down.
This will impact the Alco sign on south 11th Street. The store was closed on Dec. 19, 2010 and has been closed 14 months.
Pamida closed on Jan. 25, 2010, and Fareway officially opened 22 months later on Oct. 26, 2011.
City commissioners amended the sign ordinance in July of 2010 and voted in March of 2011 to extend a six-month deadline for unused signs to a year.
Zoning Administrator Dan Giittinger said a sign can be re-used if the new business makes an application for the sign within a year.
