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ORDINANCE NO.(P-7
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA RELATING TO ADVERTISING
DISPLAYS ADJACENT TO FREEWAYS: PROVIDING FOR
CERTAIN PERMITS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SIGNS:
DEFINING ADVERTISING STRUCTURES, DISPLAYS, FREE-
WAYS AND LANDSCAPING; PROVIDING FOR CERTAIN EX-
EMPTIONS AND PROVIDING FOR THE REMOVAL OF
ADVERTISING SIGNS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA
HEREBY ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. There is hereby added to Chapter VIII,
Article 5, the following sections:
Section 8551. Purpose and Scope
The purpose of this section is to establish standards
in order to provide the necessary determining factors
as to the location of Billboards and their proximity
to the State Freeways so as to assure landscaping and
beautification of said Freeways.
Section 8552. Enforcement
The Planning Director and Director of Building Safety
of the City of Costa Mesa shall enforce all provisions
of this Ordinance.
Section 8553. Permits Required
1. In all cases, a Conditional Use Permit shall be
required.
2. In all cases, a building permit, authorized by the
Director of Building Safety of the City of Costa Mesa,
shall be required.
3. In all cases, a signed clearance from the appropriate
Division of Highways Office shall be submitted to the
Building Official prior to receiving a building permit
from the City of Costa Mesa.
Section 8554. Definitions.
(a) "ADVERTISING STRUCTURE." Refers to a structure of
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any kind or character erected or maintained for outdoor
advertising purposes on which any poster, bill, printing,
painting, or other advertisement of any kind whatsoever
may be placed, including statuary.
(b) "SIGN". Refers to any card, cloth, metal, painted or'.
wooden sign of any character, placed for outdoor advertis-
ing purposes, on or to the ground, or any tree, wall,
bush, rock, fence, building, structure, or thing,
either publicly or privately owner, other than an ad-
vertising structure.
(c) Neither "advertising structure" nor "sign" as used
in this article includes:
1. Official notices issued by a court or public body or
officer;
2. Notices posted by any public officer in performance
of a public duty, or by any person in giving legal
notice;
3. Directional, warning, or information signs or
structures required or authorized by law by federal,
state, or municipal authority.
(d) "ADVERTISING DISPLAY". Refers to advertising
structures and to signs.
(e) "FREEWAY". The term freeway shall be deemed to mean)
a highway in respect to which the owners of abutting land
have no right or easement of access to or from their
abutting lands or in respect to which such owners have
only limited or restricted right or easement of access,
and which is declared to be such in compliance with the
Streets and Highways Code of the State of California.
(f) "TO PLACE". The vert "to place" and any of its
variants as applied to advertising displays includes the
maintaining and the erecting, constructing, posting,
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painting, printing, tacking, nailing, glueing, stitching,
carving, or otherwise fastening, affixing, or making
visible, any advertising display on or to the ground, or
any tree, bush, rock, fence, post, wall, building, structure
or thing.
(g) "LANDSCAPED FREEWAY". The term "Landscaped Freeway"
shall be deemed to mean a section or sections of a free-
way which is now, or hereafter may be improved by the
plainting of at least on one side of the freeway right
of way, of lawns, trees, shrubs, flowers, or other
ornamental vegitation which shall require reasonable
maintenance.
Planting for the purpose of soil erosion control, traffic
safety requirements, reduction of fire hazards, or
traffic noise abatement, shall not change the character
of a freeway to a landscaped freeway.
Section 8555. Advertising Displays Adjacent to
Landscaped Freeways.
No advertising displays shall be placed or maintained on
property adjacent to a section of freeway which has been,
or hereafter may be, landscaped as defined herein, if
the advertising display is designed to be viewed primarily
by persons traveling on such landscaped section of a free-
way.
Section 8556. Exempt Advertising Displays.
The provisions of Section 8555 of this Ordinance shall
not apply to any of the following listed advertising
structures or signs used exclusively:
(a) To advertise the sale or lease of the property
on which said advertising display is placed;
(b) To designate the name of the owner or occupant of
the premises upon which said advertising display is
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placed or to identify such premises;
(c) To advertise the business conducted or goods
manufactured or produced, or services rendered upon
the property upon which said advertising display is
placed.
Section 8557. Removal of Prohibited Displays.
Any advertising structure or sign which is now, or
hereafter may be, in violation of the provisions of
Section 8555 shall be removed within three (3) years
from the effective date of this Ordinance or within
three (3) years from the date when the project for
the landscaping of a section or sections of a freeway
shall have been completed or accepted, and the character
of said section or sections shall have been changed
from a freeway to a landscaped freeway, whichever is later
Section 8558. Severability.
If any section, sub -section, sentence, clause, phrase,
or portion of this Ordinance is, for any reason, held to
be invalid or unconstitutional, by the decision of any
court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall
not effect the validity of the remaining portions of
this Ordinance.
Section 2. This ordinance shall take effect and be in
full force thirty (30) days from and after its passage and
prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days from its
passage shall be published once in the Orange Coast Daily
Pilot, a newspaper of general circulation, printed and pub-
lished in the City of Costa Mesa, together with the names of
the members of the City Council voting for and against the
same. cc..��
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PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS Z"' day of l , 1967.
Mayor of the qty of Costa
Mesa. ��
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ATTEST:
City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
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COUNTY OF ORANGE )
I, C. K. PRIEST, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa
and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Costa
Mesa, hereby certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance
No.L %=j was introduced and considered section by section at
a regular meeting of the City Council on thea " day of
February, 1967, and thereafter passed and adopted as a
whole at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the
L dayof p � ,1[967 by the following roll call vote:
AYES: .0 aR a K� k/i
NOES: N44n -
ABSENT: /149-111
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City Clerk and ex -officio
Clerk of the City Council
of the City of Costa Mesa.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA) %-`-
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS. A
CITY OF COSTA MESA) 'r'h
I am a citizen of the United States and o resident of the
County aforesaid; I am over the age of eighteen years, and
not a party to or interested in the below entitled matter. I 7`1A
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am the
Legal Advertising Manager
of the ORANGE COAST DAILY PILOT, a newspaper of gen.
erol circulation, printed and published in the City of Costa
Mesa, County of Orange, State of California, and I certify nh.
that Olty Ordinance Number 67-3 ,
of which the copy attached hereto is a true and complete
copy, was printed and published in the regular issue(.) of
said newspaper on March 9,1967
I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing �;,�T
is true and correct.
Executed on March 9 1967
at Costa Mesa, California. px. ,
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SSS
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, C. K. PRIEST, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council of the
City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that Ordinance No. 67-3 was introduced and considered,
section by section, at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, held on the 20th
day of February , 196-2, and thereafter passed and adopted as a whole at a regular
meeting of said City Council held on the 6th day of Warch , 1961, by the
following roll -call vote
AYES: COUNCILMEN - BARCK, WILSON, TUCKER, PINKLEY, JORDAN
NO NE
NOES: COUNCILMEN -
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN
NONE
I FURTHER CERTIFY that said Ordinance No 67-3 was published in the ORANGE COAST
DAILY PILOT, a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in the City of Costa Mesa, on the
9th day of march '1962.
City Cerkand ex -officio
� the City Council
of the City of Costa Mesa