CHAPTER 1220: SIGNAGE

Section

1220.01   Purpose.

1220.02   Applicability.

1220.03   General regulations.

1220.04   Signs not requiring a certificate of zoning compliance.

1220.05   Measurements and calculations.

1220.06   Permanent signs permitted in PD Districts.

1220.07   Permanent signs permitted in residential districts.

1220.08   Permanent signs permitted in nonresidential districts.

1220.09   Temporary signs.

1220.10   Nonconforming signs.

1220.11   Maintenance.

§ 1220.01 PURPOSE.

   The purpose of these standards is to balance the need to protect the public safety and welfare, the need for a well maintained and attractive community, and the need for adequate identification, communication and advertising. The regulations are further intended:

   (a)   To allow businesses, institutions, and people to exercise their right to free speech by displaying messages on a sign, and to allow audiences to receive such information;

   (b)   Enhance the economy and the business and industry of the City by promoting the reasonable, orderly, and effective display of signs and thereby encourage increased communication with the public;

   (c)   To ensure that signs are designed, constructed, installed and maintained according to minimum standards to safeguard life, health, property, and public welfare;

   (d)   To reflect and support the desired ambience and development patterns of the various zoning districts and subdistricts, and promote an attractive built environment; and

   (e)   To allow for adequate and effective signs whose dimensional characteristics further the interests of public safety and the needs of the motorist, where signs are viewed from a street, sidewalk, bike path, or other form of transportation infrastructure.

(Ord. O2018-02, passed 2-20-2018)

§ 1220.02 APPLICABILITY.

   (a)   It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person to erect, place, relocate, expand, modify, maintain, or otherwise alter a sign in the City except in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

   (b)   Unless otherwise provided, this chapter shall apply to any sign, in any zoning district, that is visible from a public right-of-way or from an adjacent property.

   (c)   Any sign established prior to the effective date of this code, and which sign is rendered nonconforming by the provisions herein, shall be subject to the nonconforming sign regulations of § 1220.10.

   (d)   Exemptions. The following signs are entirely exempt from this chapter:

      (1)   Any sign located entirely within buildings or other structures and/or otherwise not visible from a public right-of-way or adjacent property;

      (2)   Any sign located on umbrellas or similarly related private patio furniture or seating provided it is located outside of the right-of-way and complies with any other applicable standards of this code;

      (3)   Any sign on a truck, bus or other vehicle that is used in the normal course of a business for transportation (see also § 1220.03(n)(1)) or signage required by the State or Federal government; and

      (4)   Any holiday lighting, signs, or related decorations.

   (e)   Certificate of zoning compliance required. Unless otherwise provided by this chapter, all signs shall require a certificate of zoning compliance.

(Ord. O2018-02, passed 2-20-2018)