Remarks by Bob Scott
249 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 10
Hearing is now open. This is going to come off a gravel road, I'm guessing, right?
So are they going to have to pave within the site then? No.
Oh, so they're not subdividing it yet for houses?
Anyone else to be heard? Hearing's now closed. Passes 5-0. Is anybody opposed to waiving statutory rule? Nope. I'll move it. Second.
Aye. 16 is a hearing and ordinance rezoning the property located at 401 7th Street. The petitioner is the city of Sioux City. The P&Z recommends approval. I'll move it.
Public hearing is now open. Anybody to be heard? Seeing none, the hearing is closed.
Thank you. Pass 5-0. Is anybody opposed to waiving the statutory rule? No. I'll move that. Second.
Aye. I'll move second and third. Second.
Aye. 17s an ordinance chapter 25 to ask you though five the municipal code and title site development to update the requirements of off-premise advertising signs and to repeal the interim sign ordinance of petitioners the city of Sioux City PNZ recommends approval the first consideration was approved September 14th I'll move second reading I Still have a problem with this Cap crap because what you're saying is we're only going to have 11 sign company in town.
My biggest problem is I don't really care for outdoor vertical urban blight as I would call it. Sorry if you're in that business. You've got to have competition. I don't like these monsters. You should limit how many square feet a sign can have, in my opinion. You should limit what they can block. And I don't know how you pass an all-encompassing deal. We've tried to never get it right. But to say that I only get to do this and I only have one choice when I want to buy outdoor advertising forever doesn't make sense to me.
Yeah, they had four total, and one of them is a piece of real estate that they don't have.
But you say there's six others, or there's six of you, but how many signs do they have?
Well, listen, I don't like. right up the street, the aid center doing tax returns for free either. But guess what? I got to compete against them and there's nothing wrong with good old fashioned.
If somebody wants a billboard, like if I wanted a billboard at my office, I can go to Board of Adjustment even under the cap and whatever?
I want to make sure I understand this. So just give me a minute now. I've let all you talk. Does it have to advertise my business or can it advertise your business?
I can get a sign at my office, and it can advertise off-premise deals.
Well, it's only a couple hundred bucks to go to Board of Adjustments.
I'm talking, can I still, today, can I go to Board of Adjustments, $250 fee, and say I want a sign at my office, or do I have to have a sign I'm taking down?
Let's don't get into schematics here. When this passes, can I put a sign on one of my properties by going to Board of Adjustment and getting approval, or do I have to take somebody else's sign down to get that?
We're hearing all kinds of different stuff. And I'm not the smartest guy I've learned through this process, because every time I think we have something, we don't. I just want to make sure that we're not saying no more new signs in the community without taking two down. I want to make sure we're not saying that.
They shouldn't be guaranteed. I get that. So let me ask you this question. So I go to Board of Adjustment, and they tell me no. Then it comes to the City Council, and what if two-thirds of them say yes? Then it's just like what we do now. We don't have to have two-thirds.
Wait a minute. I've got a rental property, and I get to pay them a fee, and they don't come inspect every year, but I get to pay the fee every year. So don't complain about a fee here because you've got the wrong guy if you're going to do that.
Yeah, and what do you get taxed at at the courthouse?
I don't like paying for a rental house either, but I get to. Yeah, I know. No one loves taxes. We don't get a break on the taxes. We get to pay the full boat. So where are we at here?
No, we've got to do third, so you've got plenty of time to amend.