2015-06 AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 41 - MISCELLANEOUS STREET REGULATIONS

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ORDINANCE NO. 2015-06 ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 41 - Miscellaneous Street Regulations - BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS: Section 1. That Section 19 of Chapter 41 of the City Code of the City of Decatur, Illinois, be, and the same is hereby, modified and amended. Section 19, as amended, shall provide as follows: 19. HONORARY STREET SIGN PROGRAM - As a means to honor individuals, organizations, entities and events that have had a significant lineage to the City or a significant cultural, historical, or humanitarian impact on the community, the City of Decatur shall establish an Honorary Street Naming Sign program as described below. All honorary street name signs shall comply with the guidelines of this program and honorary street name signs shall not have the effect of changing platted street names or official addresses. A) Application Process - Honorary street name designations shall be limited to individuals, organizations, entities and events that have had a significant lineage to or a cultural, historical or humanitarian impact on the City as determined by the Decatur City Council. An honoree must have a geographical relationship to the requested sign location, having either lived or worked or performed other actions or activities in the area deemed to have been important to the City of Decatur. Applicants shall be required to submit an application form to the City of Decatur's Development Services Department providing details as to the proposed honoree's lineage or cultural, historical or humanitarian impact on the city and an explanation of the honoree's relationship to the requested honorary street sign location as part of the application process. Applications shall be reviewed by a five (5) member panel consisting of one (1) member of the Decatur City Council, one (1) member from the Department of Development Services, one (1) member from an authorized city neighborhood organization, one (1) member from the Decatur Police Department and one (1) member appointed from the community at large. Applications will be forwarded to the Mayor and Decatur City Council and scheduled for a vote only upon an affirmative panel recommendation or if a majority of the Decatur City Council calls for it. The request will be considered "denied" upon a negative panel recommendation or if majority of the Decatur City Council does not call for an application to be brought forward within 30 days of said panel recommendation being issued. Current city employees are not eligible for an honorary street naming designation. B) Number of Signs - The Decatur City Council will designate a maximum of five (5) honorary streets per year. If there is a street, or portion of a street (except intersecting streets), that has been designated with ani honorary street name, no other such name shall be given to the street or section of street. The