The following devices and locations shall be specifically prohibited:
(A) Signs located in such a manner as to obstruct or otherwise interfere with an official traffic sign, signal, or device, or obstruct or interfere with a driver's view of approaching, merging, or intersecting traffic.
(B) Except as authorized elsewhere in this chapter, signs encroaching upon or overhanging public right-of-way.
(C) Signs placed on, in or attached to, any utility pole, light standard, street tree, planter, trash can, or any other public facility located within the public right-of-way unless specifically authorized elsewhere in this chapter.
(D) Signs that blink, flash, or are animated by lighting in any fashion including signs that have the appearance of traffic safety signs and lights, or municipal vehicle warnings from a distance.
(E) Portable signs except as allowed for temporary signs.
(F) Except as specifically permitted elsewhere in this chapter, no vehicle, or any type of trailer, which has attached thereto, or painted or placed thereon, any sign or advertising device displaying the name of any business, product or service located on the subject premises, nor any marked delivery vehicles owned by any business located on the subject premises, shall be parked on private property, in any commercial or industrial district, between the front line of the structures located thereon and the front property line, nor shall any such vehicles be parked on a public right-of-way, or on public property so as to be visible from a public right-of-way. Vehicles engaged in attended loading or unloading activities shall be exempt from this provision.
(1) Exception: The owner of any property where no other parking exists, except in front of the building, may utilize not more than 10%, but not less than one, of the existing spaces.
(G) Vehicles and trailers used primarily as static displays, advertising a product or service, used as storage, shelter, or distribution points for commercial products, or services for the public.
(H) Bulbs or strings of lights, except where permitted or required as part of a permitted outdoor sales area or for temporary holiday display, other lighting devices, streamers, hot and cold air balloon(s) or inflatable devices, structures, or propeller(s).
(I) Under canopy signs.
(J) Roof signs.
(K) Abandoned signs.
(L) Any sign that projects more than 18 inches from the building wall.
(M) Permanently affixed incandescent, LED, neon or other forms of strip lighting on the exterior of any building, or on interior windows facing the street.
(N) Animated signs.
(O) Roof signs.
(P) Bench signs, to prevent, reduce or eliminate blight in the city caused by such signs which often protrude into the city's right-of-way and are not maintained on a regular basis.
(Q) Off-premises signs, except as may be specifically permitted elsewhere in this chapter.
(R) Searchlights, except as may be specifically permitted elsewhere in this chapter.
(S) Any other signs not specifically permitted by this chapter.
(Ord. 497, passed 2-3-2004; Am. Ord. 523, passed 6-13-2006; Am. Ord. 2011-7, passed 12-13-2011; Am. Ord. 2019-02, passed 10-8-2019; Am. Ord. 2020-28, passed 3-3-2020; Am. Res. 2021-46, passed 4-13-2021; Am. Ord. passed 8-24-2021)