It is the intent of this sign ordinance regulation to preserve and enhance the aesthetic, traffic safety and environmental values of our communities and growing business/industrial districts, while at the same time providing for channels of communication to the public. It also is the city's intent to regulate on the basis of characteristic and proportion of signage. The city finds as to commercial signage that it is in the interest of both aesthetics and traffic safety that sign information be kept to a minimum. The use of subordinate information in commercial signage which presents as a traffic hazard will not be allowed. Non-commercial signage, which rights are constitutionally broader, is permitted unless expressly prohibited within this chapter.
(`67 Code, § 10-19-1) (Ord. 2000-03, passed 4-24-00; Am. Ord. 2020- 001, passed 1-28-20)