The following signs are prohibited:
(A) Any sign which the Zoning Administrator determines obstructs the view of bicyclists or motorists using any street, approach to any street intersection, or which interferes with the effectiveness of or obscures any traffic sign, device or signals shall be prohibited;
(B) Illuminated, highly reflective signs or spot lights which hamper the vision of motorists or bicyclists;
(C) 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” and the like;
(D) 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;
(E) 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, unless otherwise permitted;
(F) Any sign located in such a way as to intentionally deny an adjoining property owner visual access to an existing sign;
(G) 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 and signs which give time and temperature information). If a time and temperature sign alternates between a time message and a temperature message, it shall continuously show one message a minimum of three seconds in time before switching to the other message;
(H) Portable signs, excluding:
(3) Hand portable commercial signs up to four feet by four feet in the C-B Zoning District (which are brought out at the beginning of the business day and taken in at the end of the business day).
(I) Parked vehicles with messages (exempting vehicles with commercial advertising which are used regularly and customarily to transport persons or property for business);
(J) Rotating signs, other than on-premises rotating identification names which contain a logo and/or business name on it;
(K) Roof signs (except for signs containing non-commercial copy messages in § 155.151(B)(10) of this chapter;
(L) Billboards on or off the premises;
(M) Signs placed on a piece of property without permission of its owners or agent;
(N) Inflatable signs (including inflated balloons having a diameter of greater than two feet);
(O) Other signs not expressly permitted in this chapter; and
(P) Any sign whose sign face was initially constructed and designed to be placed and/or transported on wheels, regardless if said sign face is removed from its base and placed on or in the ground so as to otherwise classify said sign as a “free-standing” sign, as herein defined.
(Ord. passed - -, § 8.8) Penalty, see § 10.99