All signs not expressly permitted shall be prohibited in the City. Such signs include but are not limited to the following:
(a) Abandoned signs.
(b) Inflatable signs and tethered balloons capable of crossing the property line of the lot on which they are located.
(c) Billboard signs, except as expressly permitted as temporary billboard signs in Section 1134.06(f).
(d) All other off-premises signs. This prohibition against off-premises signs shall not include the following:
(i) Temporary signs for civic or community affairs of a public or semi-public nature, not for private gain; and
(ii) In the Downtown Development District, as defined by Section 177.04(h), signs that are expressly permitted by this Ordinance in combination with no more than one off-premises sign. “In combination with” means the permitted sign and off-premises sign are physically attached or affixed together, including but not limited to physically attached or affixed to the same posts or base. For purposes of this subsection (d)(ii), the off-premises sign must comply with all of the following:
(1) The off-premises sign must otherwise be in conformance with the provisions of this Ordinance;
(2) The off-premises sign must promote or identify a business that is located in the Downtown Development District; and
(3) The off-premises sign must be located in the Downtown Development District.
(e) Portable, changeable copy signs.
(f) Projecting signs except for theaters.
(g) Rooftop signs except those signs that appear to be a continuation of the face of the building or a mansard roof so long as the sign does not extend above the upper edge of the mansard roof line.
(h) Signs attached to fire escapes or any door or window giving access to any fire escape, except required, legal signs to identify such escape.
(i) Signs illuminated by or containing flashing, intermittent, rotating or moving lights, and signs with interior illumination, except as expressly permitted in Section 1134.08(a).
(Ord. 35-07. Passed 3-19-07.)
(j) Signs employing any parts which make use of animation or motion to attract attention or in which the message copy is continuously, electronically changed at a rate exceeding once per 15 seconds.
(Ord. 45-09. Passed 9-8-09.)
(k) Signs displaying nudity or words or pictures of an obscene, pornographic, indecent or immoral character.
(l) Signs painted on sidewalks.
(m) Signs attached to trees, utility poles, public benches including benches at bus stops, streetlights, or placed on or over any public property or public right-of-way.
(n) Signs imitating or resembling official traffic or government signs or signals.
(o) No mobile signs shall be erected, constructed, displayed or maintained except those on licensed commercial delivery and service vehicles. Such vehicles shall not be parked in any district closer to the street than the front line of the principal building, unless the principal building has a rear parking area; in which case, all such vehicles shall not be parked closer to the street than the rear line of said building.
(p) Window signs that occupy more than 50 percent of the window surface.
(q) Temporary directional signs, except as expressly permitted as temporary billboard signs in Section 1134.06(f).
(r) Merchandise, equipment, products, vehicles or other items not themselves for sale and placed for attention getting, identification or advertising purposes.
(s) Permanent sign erected or attached to accessory structures.
(t) Outline lighting of the building or roof line.
(u) Internal illumination of all or part of the roof.
(v) Any sign not specifically authorized by this Ordinance.
(Ord. 38-07. Passed 7-16-07.)