(A) Outdoor advertising is a legitimate, commercial use of private property adjacent to roads and highways.
(B) Outdoor advertising is an integral part of the business and marketing function of an establishment segment of the national economy which serves to promote and protect private investments in commerce and industry.
(C) The erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising signs and displays, and devices in areas adjacent to roads and highways, to promote recreational value of public travel, to preserve natural beauty, and to promote reasonable, orderly, and effective display of such signs, displays, and devices.
(D) Council further finds and declares that fiscal actualities reflect that the people of the city would suffer economically if the city failed to enact provisions to recover its costs of enacting this subchapter, among other things, to provide a statutory basis for regulation of outdoor advertising consistent with the public policy relating to areas adjacent to roads and highways, including federal-aid interstate and primary highways as declared by the Congress of the United States.
(Ord. passed - -)