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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1798 ORDINANCE NO. 1798 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, ADDING CHAPTER 9.2 TO ARTICLE IV OF THE ARCADIA MUNICIPAL~CODE REGARDING SIGNS ON PUBLIC PROPERTY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That Chapter 9.2 is hereby added to Article IV of the Arcadia Municipal Code to read as follows: CHAPTER 9.2. PROHIBITION OF POSTING ON PUBLIC PROPERTY. Section 4912. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS. a. The City of Arcadia is primarily a residential community with well maintained property, and a substantial interest in maintaining its appearance and mitigatipg visual blight and clutter. b. The City encourages the most appropriate use of land to provide adequate open space, lessen conjestion, promote appearance, facilitate provision for community facilities, and utilities, to conserve and stabilize the value of property and other related goals to promote the health, safety and general welfare of the community. c. The public property of the City of Arcadia is maintained and utilized for a variety of purposes related to qaid appearance and the well being of the community. d. The regularly scheduled temporary nature of election sign placement is incidental to the aforementioned goals of the City and utilization of public property. e. Property and facilities located within the public right-of-way, such as utility poles, benches, hydrants, bridges, sidewalks and similar structures are not by tradition or designation a forum for communication by the general public, and the Council wishes to preserve these structures for their intended purposes, which is the safe, efficient and pleasant movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic and operation of utility systems. f. The regulations and prohibitions specified in this section are necessary to preserve the public right-of-way and public property for their intended purposes, and to prevent the visual clutter, blight, and traffic safety hazards caused by temporary signs. Section 4912.1. PROHIBITION. No person shall paint, mark or write on, or post or otherwise affix, any handbill or sign to or upon any public right-of-way and median, parkways, public easements, parks, civic center property, sidewalk, crosswalk, curb, curbstone, street lamp post, hydrant, tree, shrub, tree stake or guard, railroad trestle, electric light or power or telephone or telegraph of trolley wire pole, or wire appurtenance thereof or upon any fixture of the fire alarm or police telegraph system or upon any lighting system, public bridge, drinking fountain, life saving equipment, street sign or traffic sign, or upon any other object on public property. Section 4912.2. ENFORCEMENT. Any handbill or sign found posted, or otherwise affixed upon any public property contrary to the provisions of this section may be removed by the Police -2- Department or the Department of Public Works. The person responsible for any such illegal posting shall be liable for the cost incurred in the removal thereof and the Department of Public Works is authorized to effect the collection of said costs. Any sign, handbill or related item removed by the City may be considered abandoned if it is not retrieved within fifteen (15) calendar days after the date of such removal, and may be disposed of by the City without liability to any person. Section 4912.3. EXCEPTION. COMMEMORATIVE ITEMS. Nothing in this section shall apply to the installation of a metal plaque or plate or individual letters or figures in a sidewalk commemorating an historical, cultural, or artistic event, location or personality for which the City Council has granted approval. Section 4912.4. EXCEPTION. ADDRESSES. Nothing in this section shall apply to the painting of house numbers upon curbs done under permits issued by the City. Section 4912.5. EXCEPTION. TEMPORARY ELECTION SIGNS. Temporary election signs shall be permitted subject to the following: a. Such signs relate to a specific election and are placed on the property no sooner than thirty (30) days prior to such election. -3- b. Any person who displays a temporary election sign or any person who owns or possesses the property on which a temporary election sign is located shall remove it within ten (10) days after the date of the scheduled election date to which it relates. c. No person shall erect, maintain or display a temporary election sign in excess of 32 square feet in total area, or 16 square feet in area per face whichever is less. No person shall erect, maintain or display temporary election signs with a total aggregate area on a given lot in excess of 80 square feet. d. No person shall erect, maintain or display a temporary election sign which interferes with the visibility of vehicular ingress and egress to any lot. All temporary election signs shall comply with the visibility standards for driveways and intersections on file with the Planning Department. No person shall erect, maintain or display a temporary election sign which interferes with or can be confused with any traffic signal or device or in any way interferes with the use of the property upon which it is placed. e. After twenty-four (24) hours written notice is personally served on a candidate, proponent or to a person who owns or possesses property to remove an illegally displayed, erected or maintained temporary election sign, the Police Department or Public Works Department may summarily remove said sign. -4- SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause a copy hereof to be pUblished once in the official newspaper within fifteen (15) days of the adoption hereof. Passed, approved and adopted this 16th day of October, 1984. 11 ,b~ Mayor of the City of Arcadia ~ C/ ~~L City Clerk of the City of Arcadia STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS: CITY OF ARCADIA I, CHRISTINE VAN MAANEN, City Clerk of the City of Arcadia, hereby certify that the following Ordinance No. 1798 was passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Arcadia, signed by the Mayor and attested to by the City Clerk at a regular meeting of said Council on the 16th day of October , 1984, and that said Ordinance was adopted by the following vote, to-wit: NOES: Councilman ,,\~ None ., y!lb, Lojeski, Pellegrino, Young and Hannah ^- --.:-.:;.......... -, ,1/" /'- ~~ City Clerk of the City of Arcadia AYES: ABSENT: None - , - ..---" ~ - -5-