The purposes of these regulations are to:
(A) Enhance and protect the physical appearance of the community.
(B) Promote and maintain attractive, high value residential, retail, commercial and industrial districts, and preserve the scenic and natural beauty of designated areas.
(C) Provide necessary, yet reasonable and appropriate, signage for all residential, institutional and business uses in the community.
(D) Ensure that signs are located and designed to maintain a safe and orderly pedestrian and vehicular environment, and to avoid confusion or hazardous conflict between traffic control signs and devices, and any other permitted sign.
(E) Enhance traffic and pedestrian safety.
(F) Provide the public with a safe and effective means of locating businesses, services and points of interest within the municipality.
(G) Provide review procedures that enable and ensure the comprehensive evaluation of a sign's appropriateness to the site, building and surroundings, adherence to these purposes, and consistent enforcement of this chapter's regulations.
(H) Establish and enforce a reasonable procedure for the eventual removal of legally non-conforming signs.
(Ord. O-2-20, passed 2-10-2020)