(a) In the interest of promoting the general health, safety and welfare of the residents of the City, these regulations are herein established to provide for the use, location and size of signs. More specifically, the purposes of these regulations are to:
(1) Ensure that signs are consistent with the community's development objectives, thereby maintaining the community's heritage.
(2) Provide reasonable, yet appropriate, conditions for identifying uses, including residential developments, institutions, businesses, and industrial establishments.
(3) Promote and maintain attractive, high value residential, business, office and industrial districts.
(4) Ensure that signs are located and designed to maintain a safe and orderly pedestrian and vehicular environment.
(5) Eliminate any confusion or hazardous conflict between identification signs and traffic control signs and devices.
(6) Minimize the negative consequences of excessive numbers of size of signs.
(b) Any sign that does not conform with the regulations of this Planning and Zoning Code, or any subsequent amendment thereto, is a public nuisance and, as such, must be removed in compliance with these regulations. Nonconforming signs are unduly distracting to motorists and pedestrians, and thereby create a traffic hazard and reduce the effectiveness of signs needed to direct the public. The regulations contained in this chapter are the minimum regulations necessary to abate the nuisance and to achieve the stated purpose of this chapter.
(Ord. 58-01. Passed 5-29-01.)