The intent of this section is to recognize the individual or entity who occasionally desires to display a temporary commercial message in conjunction with a permitted land use, and to provide the time, place, and manner limitations allowing certain sign types for these purposes. It is further intended to recognize the negative affect temporary signs can have on the attractiveness of a community, including the deterioration of the natural environment, the clutter temporary signs contribute to the landscape, the distractions and obstructions this sign type may cause to motorist, and the hazards that the aforementioned concerns may cause. Thus, this section is intended to establish regulations that allow portable and temporary signs without their becoming a nuisance to the community.
(a) Compliance with Provisions. Portable and temporary signs shall be permitted as an accessory use to a lawfully established principal, conditional or nonconforming use conducted on the premise, subject to the limitations included in this Code. All portable and/or temporary signs shall comply with Section 1107.17 and the following provisions:
(1) All electrical work and equipment involved with a portable or temporary sign shall conform to the National Electric Code (NEC).
(2) No sign portable or temporary by intent or design shall be used as a permanent sign.
(3) It shall be the applicant’s or owner’s responsibility to maintain a portable or temporary signs in good condition. Signs or banners that are torn, damaged, faded, or otherwise in a state of disrepair must be immediately replaced or removed.
(4) It shall be the applicant’s or owner’s responsibility to remove all portable and temporary signs when the time limit for the sign has expired.
(b) Location.
(1) Portable and temporary signs shall be permitted on the building face or in the yard adjacent to any building elevation facing a street, parking lot, drive through lane, or service drive.
(2) Portable and temporary signs shall be permitted only on the same lot or parcel as the business or activity for which it is displaying information.
(3) No temporary sign shall be placed in the right-of-way or attached to utility poles, or traffic control signs or devices.
(c) Number.
(1) Not more than one portable or temporary sign shall be permitted for each street frontage.
(2) A sidewalk sign and a temporary sign shall not be displayed at the same time.
(d) Period of Display.
(1) Portable and/or temporary signs shall be displayed for no more than 105 days in any calendar year.
(2) Temporary signs shall be permitted for an additional period of 35 days per calendar year only if the temporary sign is an attached sign per Section 1107.11(e).
(3) Temporary and/or portable signs may be displayed for a period of time not to exceed 35 consecutive days. A lapse of seven days must occur before another temporary sign can be displayed.
(4) Twenty days per calendar year will be subtracted as a penalty from a business activity’s allotted number of temporary sign display days when that activity maintains a temporary sign past the expiration date for the permit, or displays a temporary sign without a permit. If the business activity has fewer than 20 allotted temporary sign days remaining for the calendar year in which the penalty is imposed, the balance of those penalty days will be subtracted from that activity’s allotted temporary sign days in the following calendar year. This penalty is in addition to all other penalties as established in Section 1155.10.
(e) Attached temporary signs or banners are temporary/portable signs that are attached to a permanent building or structure. Attached temporary signs shall comply with the following provisions as well as Sections 1107.11(a) through (d).
(1) The sign or banners shall be mounted flat against the facade of the building or structure so that no part of the sign or banner projects more than four inches from the facade. The banner or sign must be secured, at a minimum at all four corners.
(2) Attached sign or banner size is limited to 10% of the area of the facade of the building or structure on which it is mounted, with a maximum of 50 square feet.
(3) The mounting location of the banner shall not obstruct any ingress, egress, fire exits or ventilation openings.
(4) Attached temporary signs or banners shall not be mounted on the roof, eaves, gutter, or overhang.
(f) Detached temporary signs or banners are temporary/portable signs that are supported by poles, uprights, or braces extending from the ground or from an object on the ground, or any sign located on the ground, providing that no part of the sign is attached to any part of a building.
(1) The maximum height for a detached (freestanding) portable or temporary sign shall be eight feet.
(2) The area of portable or temporary signs shall not exceed 50 square feet in area per face.
Figure 14. Illustration of a temporary sign.
(Ord. A-3075. Passed 1-24- 22.)