Remarks by Bob Scott
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Aye. 18's resolution accepting improving the preliminary plan of survey of Castle Place Development Phase 1 petitioners Westland, Property management development. PNC recommends approval. I'll move that. Second. Passes 5-0. 19 is an ordinance rezoning 300 West 45th Street. The petition was Ron Emory. PNZ recommends approval. I'll move first reading.
Anyone to be heard? What'd you have on that? Everybody voted for it, right?
That's 5-0. Is anybody opposed to waiving the statutory rule? Second.
Aye. I'll move second and third. Second.
One is an ordinance amending Chapter 25.05 of the Municipal Code entitled Side Development to update the requirements for off-premise advertising signs and to repeal the interim sign ordinance. The petitioner is the City of Sioux City. B&Z recommends approval. First consideration was approved on September 14, 2026. The second consideration was approved on September 21, 2026 and deferred from September 28, 2026. You guys should have handled that when I was on vacation, so you can move it.
Somebody's got to move it. I'll move it. Is there a second?
I almost... I hate to agree with my friend Paul Koscovich, but I'm kind of a free enterprise guy, and this really bothers me. If we have too many signs, that's shame on us. But to say you can only replace a sign with a sign says we're only going to have one sign company.
There's a variance, the city attorney's pointing out, you have to have practical difficulty. Hardship.
So like I went for a variance last week or whenever a month ago and it's on here today. Is that so now we're approving those? Is that what we're doing? Which is different than just accepting the Board of Adjustment action, correct?
That's correct. To get an variance. Saying you can appeal to the council is different than saying it qualifies for a variance. That's my point.
I'm going to need to have you wrap it up, okay?
It's our job to determine what it costs like we do with a rental inspection. It's your job to sue us if you think it's excessive, but we wouldn't do it without doing some research. We certainly have the right to set the fee. You have the right to sue us. Every landlord in this community can sue us if they don't like their inspection fee.
But you can also just do a, Ordinance and bring that back is it correct? Yes on the fee structure.
The annual FIA proposal is not included. Do that in a separate ordinance so you don't cloud this with that.
Because it makes a big difference to me.
This is going to affect the neighbors a lot differently. So that part, I don't have a problem saying no, but if you don't get the chance to say yes...
Thanks, Dave. I call for the question. We at least got a vote to see where we're at.
For me, Paul, it's not the board, number of boards. These things are so big. They don't belong in the neighborhoods they're in.
But they have time to do that because the moratorium is still on.
The difference is then it would come to council. That's what I mean, yeah.
You know, we're all going to be here for at least another year, Paul. Don't want to disappoint you.
I thought you said you were abstaining. I'm like, you can't abstain.
I abstained earlier. Oh. I'm extending later, too, but not on this one. Because I'm voting no later, too, anyway.
It fails three to two. So now what? Well, you still got a moratorium, so now.
Well, we got the moratorium in place, so they got time to do that.