Sign regulations, including provisions to control the type, design, size, location, motion, illumination, enforcement and maintenance thereof, are established in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes:
(a) To maintain high quality residential districts and promote attractive public facilities by permitting only nameplates, bulletin boards and identification signs related to any permitted home business and to the development of such districts;
(b) To provide reasonable, yet appropriate, conditions for identifying establishments in office, business and industrial districts by relating the size, type and design of signs to the type and size of the office, business and industrial establishments;
(c) To eliminate any conflict between advertising signs and traffic control signs which would be hazardous to the safety of pedestrians or the motoring public;
(d) To control the design and size of all signs so that their appearance will be aesthetically harmonious with an overall urban design for the area; and
(e) To promote the most desirable developments and economic activity consistent with the objectives of the planning and development program of the Municipality.
(Ord. 2008-17. Passed 11-17-08.)