HomeMy WebLinkAbout67-14 Advertising Displays Near FreewayORDINANCE NO. 67 fl
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, FREEWAYS
AND LANDSCAPING; PROVIDING FOR CERTAIN EXEMPTIONS AND PROVIDING
FOR THE REMOVAL OF ADVERTISING SIGNS; AND REPEALING ORDINANCE
NO. 67-3 OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA.
The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa does hereby ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Ordinance No. 67-3 of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa,
adopted March 6, 1967, is hereby repealed.
SECTION 2. There is hereby added to Chapter VIII, Article 5, of the Municipal
Code, 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.
"Section 8554. Definitions.
(a) "ADVERTISING STRUCTURE." Refers to a structure of 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 advertising purposes, on or to the ground, or any
tree, wall, bush, rock, fence, building, structure, or thing, either publicly
or privately owned, other than an advertising structure.
(c) Neither "advertising structure" nor "s&gn" as used in this article in-
cludes:
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 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 verb "to place" and any of its variants as applied to
advertising displays includes the maintaining and the erecting, constructing,
posting, 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 freeway which is now, or hereadter may be
improved by the planting of at least one side of the freeway right of way,
of lawns, trees, shrubs, flowers, or other ornamental vegetation 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 de-
fined herein, if the advertising display is designed to be viewed primarily
by persons traveling on such landscaped section of a freeway.
"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 uded 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 placed or to identify such premises;
(c) To advert&se 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 viol-
ation 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 free-
way 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 affect
the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance."
SECTION 3. 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 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 day of May, 1967.
Mayor of the Cid peCosta Mesa
ATTEST:
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City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS.
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 the above and
foregoing Ordinance No. 6 �=lY was introduced and considered section by section at
a regular meeting of the said City Council on the 1st day of May, 1967, and thereafter
passed and adopted as a. whole at a regular meeting of the said City Council held on
the /-i 0" day of �� , 1967, by the 'following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN ,84,(d C V.' J Q4, 2v'e- k e /L A, X" l k, z a
NOES: COUNCILMEN N49" e- v
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN /V #n G
IN WITNESS zr1=OF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the
City of Costa Mesa, this 1lo � day of Q , 1967•
City Cl rk and ex -officio Clerk of the
City Council of the City of Costa Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS.
CITY OF COSTA MESA)
I am a citizen of the United States and o resident of the
County aforesaid; I am overthe age of eighteen years, and
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not a party to or interested in the below entitled matter. I
am the Legal Adverticing Manager
of the ORANGE COAST DAILY PILOT, a newspaper of gen.
oral circulation, printed and published in the City of Costa
Mesa, County of Orange, State of California, and I certify
that Ordinance No. 67-14
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of which the copy attached hereto is a true and complete
copy, was printed and published in the regular issue(s) of
said newspaper on May 18,1967
I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing
I, true and correct.};
Executed on May 18th 19 67,
at Costa Mesa, California.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS.
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 67-14 was introduced and considered,
section by section, at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, held on the 1st
day of May , 196-7, and thereafter passed and adopted as a whole at a regular
meeting of said City Council held on the 15th day of May , 1962, by the
following roll -call vote
AYES: COUNCILMEN - BARCK, WILSON, TUCKER, PTNKLEY, JORDAN
NOES: COUNCILMEN - NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN - NONE
1 FURTHER CERTIFY that said Ordinance No. 67-14 was published in the ORANGE COAST
DAILY PILOT, a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in the City of Costa Mesa, on the
18th day of May , 1967.
CityClerk4ndexo of the City Council
of the City of Costa Mesa
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