(A) Any sign, which the Director of Planning and Community Development or his or her designee determines, obstructs the view of bicyclists or motorists using any street or approach to any street intersection, or which interferes with the effectiveness of or obscures any traffic sign, device, or signal shall be prohibited.
(B) Specifically prohibited are:
(1) Illuminated highly reflective signs or spotlights, which hamper the vision of motorists or bicyclists.
(2) Signs which contain lights, rotating disks, words, and other devices not erected by a public authority which may be erroneously construed as government signs or emergency warning signs. An example of this is a sign which contains a picture of a traffic sign plus the word "Stop," "Yield," etc.
(3) Any sign located outdoors which interferes with free passage from or obstructs any fire escape, downspout, window, door, stairway, ladder, or opening intended as a means of ingress or egress or providing light or air.
(4) Any sign (other than a government sign), banner, or display placed on any curb, sidewalk, post, pole, hydrant, bridge, tree, or other surface located on, over, or across any public street or right-of-way, or any banner, placed on stakes on a property, unless otherwise permitted.
(5) Any sign located in such a way as to intentionally deny an adjoining property owner visual access to an existing sign.
(6) Flashing signs, signs with flashing or reflective disks, signs with flashing lights or lights of changing degree of intensity or color, or signs with electrically scrolled messages (except government signs, signs which give time and temperature and other information, and open signs in windows). If a time and temperature sign alternates between a time message and temperature message, it shall continuously show one message a minimum of five seconds in time before switching to the other message. Open signs in commercial windows may only flash as a whole word; they may not have transitions or other lighting features that change.
(7) Portable signs (unless otherwise expressly permitted in subsequent sections).
(8) Vehicular signs
(9) Rotating signs.
(10) Roof signs that extend above the highest point of a pitched roof, mansard roof, or parapet.
(11) Off premises advertising signs, i.e. billboards.
(12) Signs placed on a piece of property without permission of its owners or agent.
(13) Other signs not expressly permitted in this subchapter.
(14) Any sign whose sign face was initially constructed and designed to be placed and/or transported on wheels, regardless if the sign face is removed from its base and placed on or in the ground so as to otherwise classify the sign as a freestanding sign as herein defined excepting however, the changeable face signs permitted under § 92.039(B)(6).
(15) Flag poles whose height exceeds 50 feet.
(16) Signs closer than ten feet to any conductor or the requirements of the National Electric Safety Code (NESC), whichever is more restrictive.
(17) Electronic changeable face (ECF) signs as a wall sign; or located directly across the street from, or within, a historic district or in CBD Central Business District.
(Ord. 01-44, passed 12-17-01; Am. Ord. 02-06, passed 2-16-02; Am. Ord. 02-32, passed 7-15-02; Am. Ord. 04-52, passed 11-15-04; Am. Ord. 08- 14, passed 4-21-08; Am. Ord. 09-42, passed 12-21-09; Am. Ord. 15-12, passed 5-4-15; Am. Ord. 21-02, passed 1-19-21; Am. Ord. 21-26, passed 7-12-21; Am. Ord. 22-01, passed 1-3-22) Penalty, see § 10.80