To provide proper police, fire, health, welfare and emergency services, public or private, to residences and businesses, it is necessary to provide for property identification numbers visible from the public roadways adjacent to residences and businesses in the city.
(A) All property upon which houses, dwellings, buildings, mobile home, businesses and other such structures are constructed or located within the city shall be considered developed property and shall have property identification numbers which shall be posted on the face and/or other appropriate side of the house, dwelling, business or structure in a manner and location so that the identification numbers are clearly and readily readable to a person of normal vision from the adjacent roadway. House trailers shall have an individual space identification number at least three inches in height on the side of the trailer facing the access road. The operator of the trailer park shall be responsible for assigning such numbers. If the house, dwelling, house trailer, business or structure is located on the property so that the posted numbers are not clearly readable from the roadway, due to distance or intervening sight barriers such as, but not limited to, shrubbery, terrain features or structures, the identification number shall also be posted separate from the main structure (i.e. on a yard light post, entrance gate, driveway marketer, mailbox, etc.) in a fashion that is clearly readable from the adjacent roadway. Such additional identification numbers shall be either located centrally between the side boundaries of the property or located immediately adjacent to the driveway providing ingress to the property, and shall be located on the same side of the adjacent roadway as the property it identifies.
(B) The property identification number or address shall use numbers not less than three inches in height. If the dwelling, house trailer, building, business or structure is located more than 90 feet from the centerline of the traveled portion of the adjacent roadway, the identifying numbers shall be not less than six inches in height, but in any case such numbers shall be of a size sufficiently large so that they are readable from the centerline of the adjacent roadway by a person of normal vision.
(C) The color of the numbers shall be in contrast with the immediate background on which they are mounted.
(D) In the case of multiple units, either business or residential, it shall be clearly indicated at each entrance the property identification numbers of those apartments or businesses accessible through such entrance. The purpose of this identification is to facilitate the rapid movement of emergency units to a specific apartment or business unit in apartment buildings or business complexes which have multiple entrances bearing the same number and series of such units that are not accessible except through a specific entrance.
(E) The occupants of all buildings in the city used for commercial and/or industrial purposes that are connected with or located so close to other buildings as to prevent access between such buildings and which requires a different route of access to the rear than that to the front of the building shall cause the correct business name and street numbers to be placed on the rear entrance door or immediately adjacent thereto. Such names and numbers shall be not less than three nor more than six inches in height, and may consist of standard manufactured letters and/or numerals. If painted on the building or door such names and numbers shall be applied with standard-type numeral and letter stencil. The name and number shall be placed as to be plainly visible and readable from the alley, service drive, easement, parking lot or any other rear access.
(F) A uniform design and construction of property identification numbers, using a green background with reflective numerals, may be approved by the City Administrator, and signs which conform to such approved design and construction shall be considered to comply with the requirements of division (E).
(G) Address assignment. The Building Official of the County of Gladwin shall have the authority and be responsible for the assignment of addresses to any building lot or property, on a uniform basis.
(H) New construction. All applicants for building permits for new construction or alterations of residences or businesses or other such structures shall be required to attach a property identification number within 30 days of completed construction.
(I) Responsibility for compliance. The owner, occupant, lessee or other person in control of any developed property shall each be responsible for identifying such property in compliance with this section.
(Ord. 288, passed 11-21-05; Am. Ord. 344, passed 1-6-20) Penalty, see § 10.99