The purpose of this Chapter is to promote and protect public health, welfare and safety by
regulating signs of all types, while balancing the need for a well maintained and attractive community, and the need for adequate identification, communication and advertising. The regulations for signs have the following specific objectives:
(a) To ensure that signs are designed, constructed, installed and maintained according to minimum standards to safeguard life, health, property and public welfare;
(b) To foster public safety along public streets within the Village by ensuring that all signs are placed in safe and appropriate locations;
(c) To reflect and support the desired ambience and development patterns of the various zoning districts; protect and preserve the aesthetic quality and physical appearance of the Village; and promote an attractive environment;
(d) 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;
(e) To ensure that the constitutionally guaranteed right of free expression is protected;
(f) To provide review procedures that enable the Village to adequately evaluate proposed signs and their relationship to the site, building, and surroundings; and
(g) To prohibit all signs not expressly permitted by this Chapter.
(Ord. 19-10. Passed 11-7-19.)