1127.05 PROHIBITED SIGNS.

   The following types of signs are specifically prohibited within the City of Wooster:

   (a)   Any sign that copies or imitates a sign installed by a government agency for official purposes;

   (b)   Windblown devices;

   (c)   Signs that employ any parts or elements that revolve, rotate, whirl, spin or otherwise make use of motion to attract attention. This shall not include changeable copy signs as allowed in this chapter;

   (d)   Signs with moving or flashing lights, except as allowed for electronic message centers in Section 1127.06(n)(4);

   (e)   Flashing, intermittent, or moving signs that flash or move more than once every three seconds, blinker, racer type, animated, whirligig devices, exposed light bulbs, and strings of lights not permanently mounted to a rigid background, and other similar types of attention-getting devices;

   (f)   Beacons, spotlights, and searchlights, except for emergency purposes;

   (g)   Pennants, ribbons, or streamers;

   (h)   Signs that are applied to trees, bus shelters, utility poles, benches, trash receptacles, newspaper vending machines or boxes, or any other unapproved supporting structure, or otherwise placed in the public right-of-way;

   (i)   Signs that obstruct or substantially interfere with any window, door, fire escape, stairway, ladder, or opening intended to provide light, air, ingress, or egress to any building;

   (j)   Any sign located in a public right-of-way except as provided for in Section 1127.06(m);

   (k)   Signs which are not securely affixed to the ground or otherwise affixed in a permanent manner to an approved supporting structure unless specifically permitted as a temporary sign;

   (l)   Signs mounted on top of a roof;

   (m)   Portable signs, not including A-frame or T-frame sidewalk signs;

   (n)   Vehicle signs viewed from a public road with the primary purpose of providing signage not otherwise allowed by this chapter. A vehicle sign shall be considered to be used for the primary purpose of advertising if the vehicle fails to display current license plates, inspection sticker, or municipal decal, if the vehicle is inoperable, if evidence of paid-to-date local taxes cannot be made available, or if the sign alters the standard design of such vehicle. Vehicle signs include those attached to or placed on a vehicle or trailer. Vehicles or trailers shall not be parked continuously in one location to be used primarily as additional signage. This does not apply to a vehicle parked at a driver's residence and is the primary means of transportation to and from his or her place of employment;

   (o)   Balloon signs or air activated graphic; and

   (p)   Any sign not specifically allowed by this chapter.

      (Ord. 2018-009. Passed 5-7-18.)