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CDD Moves Forward On Design Of Sign

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By LENORA LAKE, Tribune correspondent

Published: November 7, 2007

Updated: 11/05/2007 06:11 pm

TAMPA PALMS - A new main entrance sign to Tampa Palms probably will be a lighted brick structure with black granite slabs and gold letters. It would have columns and a rounded top.

Supervisors with the Tampa Palms Community Development District directed landscape architecture firm Hardeman-Kempton & Associates to create construction documents for the main sign at Tampa Palms and Bruce B. Downs boulevards.

The firm has been hired to assist with Vision 2011, a renovation and enhancement project for the 2-decades-old community.

The documents would address issues raised by the supervisors. Those include the type of lighting to be used, whether direct from the ground or inlaid in the sign, and the type of letters, whether three-dimensional or back lighted.

The documents also would do a cost comparison as to whether to renovate the existing entrance sign or build a new one.

The same black granite, gold lettering and design elements would be used for other signs along Bruce B. Downs Boulevard.

"All of your current signs are slightly different," Ted Kempton, a principal with the company, told the supervisors at a special meeting Thursday night. He said they varied in height, amount of blue tile background and how far apart the letters are.

The five-member board was presented with several options and rejected using precast concrete caps on the signs. The supervisors expressed concerns about maintenance and being overly ornate.

They stressed that they wanted simplicity and elegance.

The board also delayed until its regular meeting Nov. 14 a discussion about the design for the village entrance signs throughout the community.

During the public comment section of the agenda, three residents praised the supervisors for their decisions.
Bob Eriksen of Asbury said he was glad they rejected the precasts.

"The white was a little tacky," he told them.

In other business, the board unanimously approved staff recommendations to spend $46,395 for deferred maintenance for Hampton Park.

The work, which is not part of Vision 2011, would include resurfacing the tennis and basketball courts, painting the courts' lights and light poles, adding canvas canopies, repainting the racquetball courts and adding a net over the courts.

Correspondent Lenora Lake can be reached at (813) 865-4851 or llake@tampatrib.com.

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