HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1085 (1992) ORDINANCE NO. 1085
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SUBSECTIONS
9403B1- AND 9403Cl. OF ARTICLE 9, CHAPTER 4
OF THE TUSTIN CITY CODE RELATING TO
TEMPORARY SIGNS
The City Council of the City of Tustin finds and determines
as follows:
A. The Sign Code was adopted to maintain and enhance the
quality of the City's appearance by avoiding sign clutter
and to promote the economic opportunities of the City by
permitting effective business identification; and
B. There are some businesses that require special temporary
signage to identify product and service information to
customers; and
C. It has been determined that there is a need to modify the
height limits and time limits for temporary business
banners to provide for greater flexibility; and
D. The subject amendment is in the best interest of the public
health, safety and welfare in that it will maintain
regulation of temporary banner signs.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Tustin does
hereby ordain as follows:
Section 1. Subsection 9403bl. of Article 9, Chapter 4 is
hereby amended to read as follows:
1. Business Banners
(a) All banners must be fixed to a building and hung
below a roof eave or mounted on poles.
(b) All banners shall be professionally made and
constructed of cloth, canvas, plastic, PVC or
similar material, and have slits for proper wind
resistance, where necessary.
(c) No banner may exceed 32 square feet in area.
(d) One display per building or street frontage, or
in the case of a multi-tenant building, one
display per storefront shall be allowed. As a
substitute for a wall-mounted banner sign, one
pole-mounted banner sign per property street
frontage is permitted.
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(e) Every business banner shall display a City issued
permit identifying the approved dates for the
display. Banners displayed without a Citypermit
or on non-approved dates may be removed by the
City.
(f) Original grand opening business banners shall be
permitted for a period not to exceed 30
consecutive days. Temporary sign permits for
grand opening banners are subject to the approval
of the Department of Community Development. In
addition, a change of ownership or change of
business type qualifies for a grand opening
business banner.
(g) Special event information business banners for
purposes other than grand openings shall be
permitted for no more than 30 consecutive days
and not more than four (4) times in any calendar
year nor more than twice in any calendar quarter.
As an alternative, if specific non-consecutive
dates can be identified in writing, a business
banner shall be permitted for no more than 60
days per calendar quarter and no more than 120
days per calendar year. Display of special event
banners should be for special events only, and
not for each promotion a national f~anchise might
wish to advertise. Special event banners are
subject to the approval of the Department of
Community Development.
(h) Business banners are exempt from the requirement
to provide a refundable cash bond.
Section 2. Subsection 9403cl. of Article 9, Chapter 4 is
hereby amended to read as follows:
1. All banners posted on the structures approved by the
City shall advertise events and other promotions open
to the public and sponsored by the City of Tustin.
Section 3. All of the provisions of this Ordinance shall
be construed together in order to accomplish the purpose of
these regulations. If any provision of this Ordinance is held
by a court to be unconstitutional, such unconstitutionality
shall apply only to the particular facts, or if a provision is
declared to be unconstitutional as applied to all facts, all of
the remaining provisions of this Ordinance shall continue to be
fully effective.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of
the City of Tustin held on the 4th day of May, 1992.
Leslie ~nne PontioUs
Mayor
MARY E~YNN ~
City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF TUSTIN )
CERTIFICATION FOR ORDINANCE NO. 1085
MARY E. WYNN, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City
Council of the City of Tustin, California, does hereby certify
that the whole number of the members of the City Council of the
City of Tustin is five; that the above and foregoing Ordinance
was duly and regularly introduced at a regular meeting of the
City Council held on the 21st day of April, 1992 and passed and
adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the4th
day of May, 1992, by the following vote:
COUNCILPERSONS AYES: Pontious, Ports, Puckerr, Saltrarelli, Thomas
COUNCILPERSONS NOES: None
COUNCILPERSONS ABSTAINED: None
COUNCILPERSONS ABSENT:
None
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