Signs shall be permitted in each use district and regulated as to type, size, and location as provided in this chapter. Unless otherwise specifically permitted herein, the following signs are prohibited in all districts:
(a) Pennants, ribbons, streamers, strings of light bulbs, spinners, feathered flag banners or signs, or other similar devices;
(b) Mobile, portable, or wheeled signs;
(c) Signs placed on parked vehicles or trailers for the purpose of advertising a product or business located on the same or adjacent property, excepting an identification sign which is affixed to a vehicle regularly operated in the pursuance of day-to-day business or activity of an enterprise;
(d) Inflatable Images;
(e) Any sign that obstructs or substantially interferes with any window, door, fire escape, stairway, ladder, or opening intended to provide light, air, ingress, or egress to any building;
(f) Signs containing flashing, moving, intermittent, or running lights or which imitate traffic control devices, provided however, that changeable copy signs shall be permitted as regulated by this ordinance;
(g) Signs which employ any part or element which revolves, rotates, whirls, spins, flutters, or otherwise makes use of motion to attract attention;
(h) Beacons or searchlights;
(i) High intensity strobe lights;
(j) Signs that hang less than eight and one-half feet above a pedestrian walkway or less than fourteen feet above a vehicular path;
(k) Window Signs, except as specifically authorized herein;
(l) Any illuminating tubing or strings of lights, including but not limited to, those outlining property lines, open sales areas, rooflines, doors, windows, landscaping, or the edges of walls, except for perimeter down-lighting that is shielded to illuminate open sales areas but no land outside those areas; and
(m) Off-Premises signs, which include signs advertising a product or service, including entertainment, whose product or service is not available for sale or performance at the place where the sign is located.
(Ord. 2022-42. Passed 10-5-22.)