All signs not expressly permitted in this Chapter are prohibited. Prohibited signs include but are not limited to the following:
(a) A sign on or over any public sidewalk, street, or other public property or within any public easement or right-of-way except as otherwise permitted in this Code;
(b) Roof Signs;
(c) Electronic message board signs placed outdoors shall be prohibited;
(d) Billboards/off-premises signs;
(e) Flags intended for advertising or commercial purposes;
(f) Flashing, moving, blinker, racer type, intermittent, rotating, moving, animated, or revolving signs, whirligig devices, inflatable signs and tethered balloons, pennants, ribbons, streamers, spinners, exposed light bulbs, strings of lights not permanently mounted to a rigid background, and other similar types of attention-getting devices, except as provided in Section 1149.09 (d);
(g) Merchandise, equipment, products, vehicles or other items not themselves for sale and placed for attention getting, identification or advertising purposes;
(h) Signs mounted on mobile platforms or trailers, with either fixed or movable letters, lighted or unlighted;
(i) Pole signs;
(j) Temporary signs placed in the public right-of-way not installed by a government agency for public safety, notification or identification;
(k) Swooper and feather flag type signs;
(l) Wind tubes, wind dancers, inflatable characters or similar type sign;
(m) Signs attached to natural vegetation;
(n) Temporary signs within the park area on Chardon Square (that portion of the Chardon Square within the abutting curbs on North Street, North Hambden Street, Main Street, Short Court Street, South Hambden St and East Park Street) shall be subject to such time limitations and pursuant to such conditions as the City Manager may require.
(Ord. 3273. Passed 5-9-24.)