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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 1082-1990ORDINANCE NO. 1082-90 AN ORDINANCE REPEALING SECTION 8.20.170 AND AMENDING PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 20.76 OF THE SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO TEMPORARY SIGNS THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS In enacting this ordinance the City Council makes the following findings: 1) The number of temporary signs posted within the City has proliferated in recent years, particularly signs attached to public property or in the public right-of-way. Temporary signs on private property have also proliferated both in residential and commercial zones. This proliferation of temporary signs has led to visual clutter and aesthetic blight. In addition, these signs can pose a traffic safety hazard by distracting drivers or blocking lines of sight such as when entering or leaving driveways. 2) Property and facilities located within the public right-of-way, such as utility poles, fire hydrants, bridges and other similar structures are not by tradition or designation a forum for communication by the general public. The Council wishes to preserve these structures for their intended purposes. 3) The regulations in this ordinance are necessary to preserve these public structures for their intended use and to prevent the visual blight and traffic safety hazards caused by temporary signs both on public and private property. This ordinance is not intended to regulate the content or message of such signs. SECTION 2. Section 8.20.170 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. Section 20.76.010 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code is hereby amended to read: Section 20.76.010 Purpose This chapter establishes the sign regulations; the purpose of these provisions is to regulate the use of signs within the City of South San Francisco. These regulations reflect policies contained in the Land Use Element of the South San Francisco General Plan. In adopting these regulations, it is the stated purpose of the city council to provide minimum standards to safeguard life, health, property, and the public welfare by controlling the design, quality of materials, construction, size, location and maintenance of signs. The function of signs is to identify a business in a manner that is most harmonious with an aesthetic and functional business environment, and signs that are well designed and pleasing in appearance are encouraged to reduce overhead clutter and enhance property values. It is not the intention, in enacting these regulations, that on-site signs be used for general advertising purposes but rather to identify the business to which the sign relates. SECTION 4. Subsection (d) of Section 20.76.080 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code is hereby amended to read: Section 20.76.080 Enforcement-Liability-Penalty (d) Removal. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the chief building inspector, code enforcement officer, director of public works or police department may have removed without prior notice any sign which is an immediate threat to persons or property or which is located on public property in violation of Section 20.76.100(g). Once such a sign is removed the code enforcement officer shall immediately attempt to notify the owner of the sign, if ascertainable. If the sign is not retrieved within fifteen (15) days after removal, it shall be deemed abandoned and may be disposed of by the City. SECTION 5. Subsections (e) and (h) of Section 20.76.090 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code are hereby amended to read: Section 20.76.090 Exempted signs (e) Temporary signs erected by the City over or on public property pertaining solely to noncommercial, nonpolitical events conducted within the City, such as festivals, parades or other similar public events. (h) Signs on private property in connection with political campaigns or with public health, safety and welfare campaigns or patriotic or special events of general public interest. Such signs shall be limited in size to sixteen (16) square feet per sign. Each lot may have an aggregate total of eighty (80) square feet of such signs at any one time. Where there is more than one dwelling unit per lot, each individual unit may have an aggregate total of sixteen (16) square feet at any one time. All such signs shall be removed within ten (10) calendar days after the event to which they relate occurs. SECTION 6. SEVERABILITY In the event any section or portion of this ordinance shall be determined invalid or unconstitutional, such section or portion shall be deemed severable and all other sections or portions hereof shall remain in full force and effect. SECTION 7. PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE This ordinance shall be published once, with the names of those City Councilmembers voting for or against it, in the Enterprise Journal, a newspaper of general circulation in the City of South San Francisco, as required by law, and shall become effective thirty (30) days from and after its adoption. Introduced at a regular of South San Francisco, held the 13th day of June , 1990. Adopted as an Ordinance of the City of South San Francisco at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of South San Francisco, held the 27th day of June , 1990, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Jack Drago, Gus Nicolopulos, John R. Penna, Roberta Cerri Teqlia, and Mayor Richard A. Haffey NOES: None ABSTAIN: None ABSENT: None meeting of the City Council of the City City C1 As Mayor of the City of South San Francisco, I do hereby approve the foregoing Ordinance this 27th day of June 990.