The purpose of this chapter is to provide minimum standards to safeguard life, health, property and the general welfare as well as to encourage the effective use of signs as a means of communication in the City; to maintain and enhance the aesthetic environment and the City's ability to attract sources of economic development and growth; to improve pedestrian and traffic safety; to minimize the possible adverse effect of signs on nearby public and private property; and to enable the fair and consistent enforcement of this Sign Code. These purposes shall be accomplished by the regulation of display, erection, use and maintenance of signs. The use of signs is regulated according to zone. No sign shall be permitted as a main or accessory use except in accordance with the provisions of this chapter or any corridor overlay or Planned Unit Development standard in effect.
The scope of this chapter shall not regulate official traffic or governmental signs; the copy and message of signs; window displays; point of purchase displays; scoreboards on athletic fields; flags of any nation, government or noncommercial organizations; gravestones; religious symbols; commemorative plaques; the display of street numbers; or any display or construction not defined herein as a sign. Thus, the primary intent of this chapter shall be to regulate signs of a commercial nature viewed from any vehicular public right of way.
(Ord. 4312. Passed 11-10-09.)