HomeMy WebLinkAbout95-25 Amending Code to Prohibit Above-Roof SignsORDINANCE NO. 9'5 - a -)
AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA,
AMENDING SECTION 13-953 OF THE COSTA MESA
MUNICIPAL CODE TO PROHIBIT ABOVE -ROOF SIGNS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa finds and declares
as follows:
(a) Significant revisions to the City's sign ordinance were enacted by adoption of
Ordinance 95-10 on September 18, 1995; and
(b) The prohibition against installation of above -roof signs, which was contained in
earlier drafts of the 'ordinance, was inadvertently omitted from the final
ordinance; and
(c) The City Council desires to reinstate the prohibition against above -roof
signs; and
(d) The City Council finds and determines that adoption of this Ordinance on an
urgency basis is necessary to protect the public safety, health, and welfare in that,
unless this Ordinance is adopted on an urgency basis, there is a likelihood that
above -roof signs will be installed without proper review by the City, contrary to
the intent of the Municipal Code, and that such signs will unfairly and
detrimentally impact surrounding property values due to visual obtrusiveness.
ACCORDINGLY, the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa hereby amends the Costa
Mesa Municipal Code as follows:
SECTION 2. Paragraph (i) is added to Section 13-953 of the Costa Mesa Municipal
Code to read as follows:
i. Signs which project above a parapet or the highest point of the roof.
SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force immediately from and
after the passage thereof, and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days from its passage, shall
be published once in a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in the City of
Costa Mesa, together with the names of the members of the City Council voting for and against
the same.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 18th day of December, 1995.
ATTEST:
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CITY ATTORNEY
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I, MARY T. ELLIOTT, Deputy City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council of
the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance No. 95-25 was
introduced and considered section by section at a regular meeting of the City Council held on
the 18th day of December, 1995, and thereafter passed and adopted as a whole at a regular
meeting of the City Council held on the 18th day of December, 1995, by the following roll call
vote:
AYES: Erickson, Buffa, Hornbuckle, Genis, Monahan
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the City
of Costa Mesa this 19th day of December, 1995.
Deputy City derk and ex -officio Clerk of
the City Couivil of the City of Costa Mesa