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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
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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,
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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)
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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SIGNED AND APPROVED this 2lst day of November , 1961.
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