A. During any year preceding a local, state, or federal election, any person owning or possessing any interest in the real estate immediately abutting the right of way for a public street, alley, sidewalk or bike lane, but excluding any right of way for any state or federal highway, may apply for a permit to place a temporary political sign containing its own physical support on the right of way. No person shall place or authorize the placement of a private signage on any utility pole or other structure, or placed in the median. No person may attach such a sign to any traffic signage or control device, or to any tree.
B. Applicant, whether acting as the adjacent landowner, or as an official representative of a campaign which has previously obtained permission of the adjacent landowner, shall apply to the community development department by submitting a nonrefundable twenty dollar ($20.00) permit fee and completing an application form available from the community development department. The application shall also include a one hundred dollar ($100.00) deposit for permits to be used during primaries and all local (city and county) elections, or a one hundred dollar ($100.00) deposit for state or national general elections. This deposit is refundable if the requirements of this section and section 12.26.040 of this chapter are fully met by the applicant.
C. No signage shall be allowed on the rights of way adjacent to vacant lots. Only one sign per block of developed, commercial or industrial use. Only one sign per one-half (1/2) mile of undeveloped agricultural land. (Ord. 2064, 2015: Ord. 1990, 2012)