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Meeting August 27, 2009
City of Georgetown, Texas
Historic and Architectural Review Commission Sign Subcommittee Meeting
Minutes
Thursday, August 27, 2009 5:30 p.m.
City Council Chambers, Municipal Court Building
101 E. 7th Street, Georgetown, TX 78626
Members Present: Will Moore, Chair; Ron Pergl; Dee Rapp
Members Absent: none
Staff Present: Robbie Wyler, Historic District Planner; and Karen Frost, Recording Secretary
Also in attendance: City Council members Pat Berryman, Dale Ross and Bill Sattler.
The meeting was called to order by Chair Moore at 5:30 p.m.
The Historic and Architectural Review Commission Sign Subcommittee is responsible for
hearing and taking final action on sign applications, by issuing Certificates of Design
Compliance based upon the City Council adopted Downtown Design Guidelines. This is a
regular scheduled meeting of the Sign Subcommittee, for consideration and possible action on
the following:
1. Review and possible approval of the minutes from the August 13, 2009 Sign Subcommittee
meeting.
Motion by Pergl to approve the minutes as written. Second by Rapp. Approved 3 – 0.
2. Consideration and possible action on a request for a Certificate of Design Compliance for an
amendment to a Master Sign Plan at City of Georgetown, Block 27, Lots 1 - 8, also known as
Tamiro Plaza, located at 501 S. Austin Avenue. (CDC-2009-030)
Wyler presented the staff report. On October 30, 2008, a HARC approved Master Sign Plan
for the Tamiro Plaza office building was approved. This approval included conditions for
each tenant on signage placement and allowances. Merrill Lynch, occupying half of the 1st
Floor, was given space on a monument sign as well as ten-inch white lettering on the green
sign freezes above each of its business windows.
Merrill Lynch, the applicant, has stated that the legal corporate trademarked logo used
worldwide cannot be altered. The existing conditions of the Master Sign Plan prohibit the
company from using the corporate logo and disallow the type of signage proposed. The
applicant seeks Certificate of Design Compliance approval for additional signage to be
added to the exterior of Tamiro Plaza. An LED illuminated wall-mounted sign is proposed
directly above a first floor window on both the Austin Avenue and 5th Street sides of the
building as shown in the application packet. Each sign will measure eleven (11) feet wide by
2.6 feet tall and will be white with a black outline of the corporate bull logo to the left of the
business name. The plate where the letters and bull logo are will be painted red to blend
into the red brick of the building. The applicant believes this will reduce the visibility of the
sign outside of the letters and bull logo. A diagram detailing how the sign will be attached
and wired to the building has been provided along with details on the location, size and
color of the two signs.
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Guidelines used to review this application were 9.4, 9.5, 9.13, 9.14, 9.15, 9.17, 9.18, 9.20 & 9.21.
Staff did not make a recommendation of approval or denial.
Chair Moore stated that he read the application and feels the considerations that need to be
made should be taken to the entire Commission for review. Motion by Pergl to defer the
decision of this application to the regular meeting to be held at 6:00 p.m. Second by Rapp.
Approved 3 – 0.
3. Adjournment
Chair Moore adjourned the meeting at 5:37 p.m.
The Subcommittee may forward these items to the next meeting of the Historic and Architectural Revie w
Committee for its consideration. That meeting is scheduled for August 27, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.
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Approved, Will Moore, Chair Attest, Ron Pergl, Commissioner