1331.01 PURPOSE AND INTENT.

    Regulation of signs will permit businesses in the City of Dover to advertise and permit said advertisements to be consistently applied to enhance the business and living environments in the City of Dover. Sign regulations, including provisions that control the type, design, location, motion, illumination, enforcement and maintenance thereof, will enhance the business and living environments of the City of Dover. To achieve those goals, to enhance the beauty of the City of Dover, and to further the City of Dover's historical heritage as a beautiful and industrious city on the banks of the Tuscarawas River, the following purposes are stated:

   (a)   Signs will be regulated to maintain high quality residential districts and promote attractive public facilities by permitting only name plates, bulletin boards (announcement signs that direct attention to public and semi-public institutions) and identification signs related to the development of such districts;

   (b)   Signs will be regulated to provide reasonable, yet appropriate conditions for identifying establishments in business and industrial districts by relating the size, type and design of signs to the type of the business or industrial establishment;

   (c)   Signs will be regulated to eliminate any conflict between advertising signs and traffic control signs which would be hazardous to the safety of the motoring public or pedestrians;

   (d)   Signs will be regulated to control the design and size of all signs so that the appearance will be aesthetically harmonious with the overall urban design for the area; and

   (e)   Signs will be regulated to promote the most desirable development and economic activity consistent with the objectives of the planning and development of the City of Dover;

   (f)   The provisions in this chapter are established to provide a reasonable and impartial method of regulating advertising, to insure safe construction, to insure light, air and open space, to reduce hazards at intersections, and to protect property values of the entire community and to protect the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the City of Dover.

      (Ord. 4-11. Passed 3-7-11.)