This Article establishes the regulations for the continuing use of off-premise outdoor advertising in order to encourage an attractive environment for businesses, inform and direct the general public, protect and enhance the physical appearance of the community, ensure public safety along streets and highways, and provide businesses with a format for advertising the goods and services made available by the business community.
Outdoor advertising is a traditional advertising medium involving the use of private property.
Outdoor advertising should be regulated to provide for safe structures, to be properly located so as to meet uniform standards for construction and maintenance, and to be maintained to conform to a neat and pleasant community appearance.
In support of the previous statements and in order to assure the compatibility of billboards with surrounding land usage, to protect the public interest in streets and highways, to promote and maintain the safety and general welfare of persons and their property in the vicinity of outdoor advertising structures, to allow orderly and effective display of outdoor advertising, it is deemed to be in the public interest to enact this ordinance.
The regulations in this Article shall be known as the Outdoor Advertising Ordinance of the City of Grand Island, Nebraska.
(Added by Ord. No. 8866, effective 11-19-2003)