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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1148 ORDINANCE NO. 1148 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF 'rHE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS 8711, 8714, 8721.8 AND 8721.8.1 OF THE ARCADIA MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADDING NEW SECTIONS 8721.8.2 THROUGH 8724 THERETO. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION I. That Sections 8711, 8714, 8721.8 and 8721.8.1 of the Arcadia ~lunicipal Code be amended to read respectively as follows: 8711. ADVERTISING STRUCTURE. Advertising structure shall mean and include any structure, including all parts thereof, which is erected or used primarily for advertising purposes, and upon which any poster, bill, bulletin, printing, painting, device or other advertising of any kind whatsoever is placed, posted, tacked, painted, carved or otherwise fastened or affixed, and shall include glass tubing outlining for advertising or decorative purposes, electric si~s and advertising statuary. 8714. FREEWAY. Freeway shall mean and include any portion of a highway with respect to which the owners of abutting lands have no right or easement of access to or from their abutting lands or in respect to which the owners have only limited right of ease- ment or access, and which is declared to be a freeway in compliance with the streets and Highways Code of the State. 8721.8. ADVERTISING STRUCTURES PROHIBITED ADJACENT TO - - _. FREEWAY. No advertising structure shall be erected, constructed, relocated, reconstructed, altered or maintained, regardless of the district or zone in which it is located, if: I. Such advertising structure is designed to have, or has, advertising thereon maintained primarily to be viewed from a main traveled roadway of a freewaYj or, -l- 1148 2. Such advertising structure, because of its location, size, nature or type, constitutes or tends to constitute a hazard to the safe and efficient operation of vehicles upon a freeway, or creates a condition which endangers the safety of persons or property upon a freeway. 8721.8.1. SAME. EXCEPTION. The provisions of the pre- ceding Section shall not apply to any advertising structure on which the advertising is limited to: I. The name of the building wherein the sign is located. 2. nle name of the person, firm or corporation occupying the building, and the type of business conducted therein by such person, firm or corporation. 3. ,The name of the product manufactured on the premises. 4. Advertising matter which is strictly incidental to and subordinate to the lawful use of the premises on which it is located, including signs advertising services rendered or goods sold on the premises, providing that all such advertising be limited to the type of services rendered or a collective description of the type of goods sold and shall not include the trade name or specific descrip- tion of any goods or products sold on the premises. SECTION 2. That new Sections 8721.8.2, 8721.8.3, 8721.8.4, 8721.8.5, 8721.8.6, 8721.8.7, 8722, 8723, 8723.1 and 8724 be added to said Arcadia I~unicipal Code, the same to read as follows: 8721.8.2. SAME. RESTRICTIONS. Every advertising struc- ture authorized by the preceding section shall comply with each of the restrictions contained in the following subsections. 8721.8.3. SAME. SAME. No such sign erected or main- tained within two hundred (200) feet or less of a main traveled roadway of a freeway shall exceed a height of eight (8) feet and a width of twelve (12) feet. Each of such dimensions may be increased by twenty-five percent (25%) for each additional one hundred (100) -2- 1148 feet or fraction thereof in excess of two hundred (200) feet from a main traveled roadway of a freeway. 8721.8.4. SAME. SAME. The total area of all such ad- vertising structures upon any lot, building and premises shall not exceed ten percent (10%) of the total area of the lot upon which they are located. 8721.8.5. SAME. SAME. No such advertising structure shall have any moving parts visible from a main traveled roadway , of a freeway. 8721.8.6. SAME. SAME. No such advertising structure shall be illuminated by flashing lights. All artificial illumina- tion of any such advertising structure shall be constant, and shall not b~ increased or decreased nor changed as to color of artificial lighting more frequently than once in thirty (30) minutes. 8721.8.7. SAME. SAME. No such advertising structure, including the advertising matter thereon, shall imitate or simulate any official warning, stop, danger or directional sign. 8722. DETERMINATION OF COMPLIANCE. The Building Official shall, in the first instance, determine, from the plans submitted for each advert:lsing structure, whether the same complies with the requirements of this Chapter. The plans submitted to the Building Official shall be sufficiently detailed to enable him to make all the determinations required by this Chapter. If any person is dis- satisfied with any determination made by the Building Official with respect to any advertising structure regulated or purported to be regulated under the provisions of this Chapter, he may within ten (10) days.after any such decision of the Building Official appeal in writing to the City Council. The City Council shall review the plans, the proposed site if necessary, and render its decision as soon as it has ascertained all pertinent facts. The decision of the City Council in such ~atters shall be final. -3- 1148 8723. TEMPORARY SIGNS. Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 8721.8 to 8722, inclusive, the City C?unCil may, upon writ- ten application setting forth good cause therefor, permit temporary signs contrary to the provisions hereof. Each such permit shall specify the height, width and location of such sign, the purpose thereof and the advertising matter to be permitted thereon, and the length of tilne during which such sign may be constructed and main- tained. No permit for a temporary sign contrary to the foregoing provisions shall be for a period in excess of one year, nor shall any such temporary sign permissible solely by reason of this sec- tion be permitted, constructed or maintained within two hundred (200) feet of the main traveled roadway of a freeway. No permit issued under this section shall be effective unless and until the permittee shall have filed with the City Clerk a cash bond, or a corporate surety bond in the form approved by the City Attorney, guaranteeing compliance with all conditions imposed by the permit, including the removal of such sign upon the expiration of the permit authorizing the same. 8723.1. SAME. NATURE. No permit shall be authorized or issued under the preceding section for any sign which does not, by reason of its function, such as the advertising of a building or land for sale or for lease or the giving of directions to a place upon which are held or to be held temporary or seasonal events, reasonably require the location of such sign contrary to the pro- visions of this Chapter. 8724. PRE-EXISTING SIGNS. No advertising structure here- tofore erected which does not comply with the provisions of this Chapter shall hereafter be repaired, altered or reconstructed except in conformity with this Chapter. All advertising structures erected prior to or erected under a valid agreement so to do executed prior to the applicability of the provisions of this Chapter thereto shall -4- 1148 be removed or made to conform with the provisions of this Chapter within three (3) years after the applicability of the provisions of this Chapter thereto. SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance. I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of 'the City of Arcadia held on the 2lst day of November , 1961, by the affirmative vote of at least three Councilmen, to wit: AYES: Councilmen Butterworth, Cam~house, Phillips, Reibold and Balser NOES: None ABSEN,T: None ~7~~~ ity Clerk of the Ci y of Arcadia SIGNED AND APPROVED this 2lst day of November , 1961. ~1~'t'f'~ or 0 the City 0 rca ia ATTEST: ~;~;~~~ i Y Cler . (SEAL) -5- 1148 rKOQli 01' II"UBUCAnON 12015.5 c.c.P., I his space IS tor me \..OIlnty Uern I"IlIng :>tamp STATE OF CALIFORNIA,} 's. County of Los Angeles, I am 0 citizen of the United Stotes ond a resident of the County aforesoid; , am over the oge of eighteen yeors, ond not a porty to or interested in the above entitled motter. 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