(A) If any application for a zoning certificate is not approved, the UDO Administrator shall state in writing on the application the cause for such disapproval, and the owner of record or the owner’s agent or representative shall be notified of the same within 30 days of the decision, by certified mail, return receipt requested.
(B) The UDO Administrator shall have the authority to order the removal or modification of any sign which does not meet the requirements of this Unified Development Ordinance. However, such removal or modification is not required to abate a hazardous or unsafe condition that poses eminent peril. In such an instance, the UDO Administrator shall be authorized to act expeditiously to cause the removal of such a hazard prior to the notification of the owner of record.
(C) No sign shall be erected, placed or maintained in such a manner that any portion of its surface or its supports will interfere in any way with the free use of or access to any sidewalk, fire escape, entrance, exit or standpipe, or so as to obstruct any window so that light or ventilation is reduced below minimum standards required by any applicable law or building code.
(D) Except where specifically exempted by this Unified Development Ordinance, all signs, including the supports, frames and embellishments thereto, shall not be located within any public right-of-way, nor shall any sign be attached, affixed or painted on any utility pole, light standard, telephone pole, any tree, rock or other natural object. Any sign that is in violation of this Unified Development Ordinance is subject to being confiscated by the UDO Administrator.
(Ord. eff. 9-6-2012, § 9.39; Am. Ord. 21-1, passed 9-17-2020)