(a) General Provisions. No sign shall employ any parts or elements which revolve, rotate, whirl, spin, flutter, or otherwise make use of motion to attract attention. No sign or part thereof shall contain or consist of banners, posters, pennants, ribbons, streamers or similar devices. Such devices, as well as strings of lights, shall not be used for the purpose of advertising. No sign shall employ flashing, moving, or intermittent lights or lights of changing degrees of intensity except a sign indicating time or temperature. No sign shall emit illumination that causes any direct glare into or upon any residential building.
Every sign shall be located on the same lot as the premises, use, product or activity to which it refers. No sign shall have more than two faces. No sign, except those erected and maintained by public agencies for purposes of traffic control, shall be erected in any public right of way. All signs shall be maintained in a safe condition and in a reasonable state of repair.
(b) Commercial Identification Signs. Commercial identification signs shall be erected or painted only upon the front wall of the building occupied by the use which such sign advertises. No such sign shall extend above the roof line of the building or beyond the ends of the wall surface to which it is attached. No commercial identification sign or part thereof shall project more than eighteen inches from the front wall or face of the building.
Each business or occupant shall be permitted one commercial identification sign provided however that the maximum area of such signs on any building shall not exceed one square foot of sign area for each lineal foot of front wall.
No commercial identification sign shall be permitted or erected until it has been reviewed and approved by the Architectural Board of Review as being in harmony with the architectural standards of the area, in conformance with these regulations, and in compliance with such additional architectural requirements as the Board may have established for the building on which it is erected.
(c) Residence and Institution Identification Signs. Residence identification signs shall have a maximum area of four square feet and shall not be illuminated.
Subdivision, public or religious institution identification and information signs shall not exceed sixteen square feet.
(d) Political Signs. Political signs shall be non-illuminated, a maximum area of eight square feet and a maximum height of six feet. There shall be a limit of one political sign per candidate or issue per lot, which may only be displayed for a period commencing the third Saturday before the election and ending five days after the election.
(Ord. 3-89-05. Passed 3-1-89.)