The following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. General definitions are contained in § 155.003.
ACCESSORY USES. A use that is appropriate, subordinate, and customarily incidental to the main use of the site and which is located on the same site as the main use.
ADJACENT. When used to refer to a billboard adjacent to a freeway, shall mean located within, either in whole or in part, in an area formed by measuring 660 feet laterally from the edge of the right-of-way of a landscaped freeway section along a line perpendicular to the center line of the freeway (as defined in California Code of Regulations, Title 4, Chapter 1, § 2242).
BALLOONS and INFLATABLES. Any inflated object including, but not limited to, blimps, nylon tubes inflated by fans, advertising balloons, large-scale character replicas, balloon arches, used to attract attention to a site.
BILLBOARD. A sign that identifies or communicates a commercial or noncommercial message related to an activity conducted, a service rendered, or a commodity sold at a location other than where the sign is located. This includes, but is not limited to, electronic billboards, building graphics, supergraphics, building wraps, and wall drop signs containing off-site messages, and billboards painted or applied to building walls. The terms BILLBOARD and OFF-PREMISES SIGN may be used interchangeably to mean the same thing.
BILLBOARD, ELECTRONIC. A billboard, utilizing digital message technology, capable of changing the static message or copy on the sign electronically, such that, the alphabetic, pictographic, or symbolic informational content of which can be changed or altered on a fixed display surface composed of electronically illuminated or electronically actuated or motivated elements and can be changed or altered electronically. This includes billboards with displays that have to be preprogrammed to display only certain types of information (i.e., time, date, temperature) and billboards whose informational content can be changed or altered by means of computer-driven electronic impulses. This includes, without limitation, billboards also known as digital billboards or LED billboards.
BILLBOARD, STATIC. A billboard that does not utilize digital message technology and instead uses “static” print/or pictures, for the advertisement of a business, commodity, service, thing, message, or entertainment conducted, sold, or offered elsewhere than upon the lot on which that sign is located.
DUCTWORK. Pipes, methane gas safety valves, vents and similar appurtenances that may be visible from the exterior of a building.
FACADES. The front elevation of a building or structure. Includes architectural treatment to the elevation, materials used and fenestration.
FREEWAY. A highway in which the owners of adjoining lands have no right or easement of access to or from their adjoining lands, or in respect to which such owners have only limited or restricted right of easement of access and that is declared to be such in compliance with the California Streets and Highways Code, including principal roadways, interchange roadways connecting one freeway with another, and ingress and egress ramps connecting the freeway with other streets or highways, but not including frontage roadways.
FREEWAY LANDSCAPE BUFFER. Required landscape area that separates a freeway from a residential use. These buffers include soundwalls and berming at a 2:1 slope.
FREEWAY-ORIENTED. With respect to billboards, shall mean any billboard that is adjacent to a freeway, as set forth above, and designed to be viewed primarily by persons traveling on the main-traveled way of the freeway.
FREEWAY ORIENTED USES. Uses such as drive through restaurants, service stations and other
miscellaneous uses that traditionally serve freeway users. These businesses generally are geared toward and depend upon the drive by traffic from the freeway to draw in business.
FREEWAY SIGN. A freestanding sign with the sole purpose of providing direction, information, and posted speed limits for vehicular traffic within the freeway right of way.
LANDSCAPED FREEWAY. A freeway or section thereof which is improved on at least one side of the right-of-way with the planting of trees, shrubs, vines, ground cover, lawns, flowers or other ornamental vegetation for the purpose of beautification.
OVERPASS. Bridge or other structure that allows traffic from city streets to cross over a freeway without impeding the freeway's traffic flow.
REMNANT PARCELS. Parcels that are left over as a result of a public improvement project, which are typically not large enough to accommodate development that complies with required development standards such as minimum lot width, depth, or setbacks.
ROOF SIGN. An attached sign constructed upon or over a roof, or placed so as to extend above the visible roofline; or a freestanding sign that is greater in height than the building it identifies.
SOUNDWALL. Wall that is constructed to protect sensitive uses from the impacts of a freeway. Generally, soundwalls are constructed to help minimize the noise levels generated by the traffic traveling the freeway.
SUPERGRAPHIC. A sign, containing either on-site or off-site advertising, consisting of an image that is applied to and made integral with a wall, or projected onto a wall, or printed on vinyl, mesh, or any other material, or other light pliable material not enclosed in a rigid frame. The term SUPERGRAPHIC also shall include signs known as “building wraps.”
VIEW CORRIDORS. An unobstructed view from the freeway to a place of business, taking into
account the likely ultimate development of surrounding properties based on current general plan and zoning regulations.
(Ord. 931, passed 2-27-03; Am. Ord. 1036, passed 11-20-12; Am. Ord. 1092, passed 5-24-17)