The purpose of this Chapter is to promote the public health, safety, and welfare through the provision of standards for existing and proposed signs of all types. More specifically, this Chapter is intended to:
(a) Enhance and protect the physical appearance of the community.
(b) Promote and maintain visually attractive residential and retail business districts.
(c) Ensure that signs are located and designed to reduce distraction and confusion that may be contributing factors in traffic congestion and accidents, and maintain a safe and orderly pedestrian and vehicular environment.
(d) Prevent the erection of structures of any kind that will obstruct sight distance at the intersection of streets, alleys, or driveways.
(e) Prevent the erection of poorly constructed and unsafely located, posted, or painted signs.
(f) Provide review procedures that enable the Village to comprehensively evaluate the appropriateness of a sign to a site, building, and its surroundings.
(g) Prohibit all signs not expressly permitted by this Chapter
(Ord. 2012-21. Passed 7-11-12.)