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Home My WebLink About66-32 Classification of Signs/DefinitionORDINANCE NO. 66-32 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, RELATING TO REAL ESTATE SIGNS AMENDING SECTION 8502 OF CHAPTER VIII, ARTICLE 5, RELATING THERETO. THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN: SECTION 1. Section 8502 of Chapter VIII, Article 5 of the Costa Mesa Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 8502 - Classification of Signs - Definitions. In order to carry out the purpose of this article as set forth in Section 8500.1 signs are hereby classified and provided for as follows: (a) Real Estate Signs - Residential. Temporary Real Estate signs advertising the sale of residential properties shall be permitted subject to the standards of the City of Costa Mesa which are hereby adopted and as the same shall be amended from time to time by the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa which said standards are as follows: 1. One (1) sign per lot. 2. A maximum in size of eighteen (18) inches in height and twenty-four (24) inches in width. 3. Green background with white identifying letters. 4. The following copy only shall be permitted: A. "For Sale by Owner" or "For Lease or Rent by Owner" and owner's phone number. m B. "For Sale by Agent" or "For Lease or Rent by Agent" and telephone number of licensed real estate broker. - 1 - 5. Location. On a standard realty frame placed in the ground not closer than ten (10) feet from the front property line or five (5) feet from any side property line, when possible. 6. Permission to use. Any licensed real estate broker who has been issued a current business license by the Finance Department of the City of Costa Mesa and who has a bona fide listing of the property upon which the sign is placed or property owner. 7. Length of Placement. Sign shall be removed immediately upon signing an agreement to pur- chase or agreement to enter into escrow has been received by the broker or owner. 8. A one (1) foot x three (3) foot clip -on of the same color with the additional words "OPEN HOUSE" may be attached to the supporting post or sign during open house and removed immediately upon completion. 9. One additional "OPEN HOUSE" directional arrow sign of the size set forth in subparagraph 2 may be allowed to advertise the property listed for sale with no limitation on the location of said directional sign. All flags, banners or other advertising devices are hereby prohibited. - 2 - (b) Real Estate Signs - Other than Residential Property. A Real Estate sign to be placed on other than residential property shall mean a sign which contains the follow- ing copy: 1. "FOR SALE" or "FOR LEASE OR RENT" 2. Name of owner or agent and any telephone number. 3. Length of Placement. Sign shall be removed immediately upon signing an agreement to pur- chase or agreement to enter into escrow has been received by .the broker or owner. (c) Tract Sign. A Tract Sign shall mean any sign lo- cated within the boundaries of an improved tract, advertising the first sale of homes or lots within such tract. (d) Advertising Copy Signs. 1. Appurtenant and Incidental Advertising Copy Sign shall mean a sign which relates to the goods or services rendered within the building on which building site said sign is erected and which does not fall within the definition of a Tract Sign or Real Estate Sign as defined in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 8502 of this Article. 2. Off -Site Advertising Copy Sign shall mean a sign containing advertising copy which does not fall within the definition of the Tract Sign, the Real Estate Sign, or the Appurtenant and Incidental Advertising Copy Sign as defined in sub -sections Cd (a), (b), and (d(1) of Section 8502 of this Article." - 3 - SECTION 2. All references to signs relative to the number allowed, the size, the type, the copy and time limitations, not mentioned in this Ordinance, shall be referred to in the adopted sign standards. SECTION 3. There is hereby added to Chapter VIII, Article 5, Section 8502.1 which shall read as follows: "EXCEPTIONS: Signs used during course of construction, or remodeling advertising material, products or services used in connection with said construction. Said signs shall be removed at the completion of construction and in any event no later than the issuance of an Occupancy Permit." SECTION 4. There is hereby repealed the following portions of the following sections of Chapter VIII, Article 5 of the Costa Mesa Municipal Code: Section 8503 (d) and Section 8504 (a). SECTION 5. 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 Daily Pilot, a newspaper of general circula- tion, 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 / ir/-day � of_[y_ 1966. _ 7V�77'TT� Mayor of the t of Costa Mesa ATTEST: �) n City Clefk of the City of Costa Mese - 4 - STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) ) ss COUNTY OF ORANGE ) I, C.K. PRIEST, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa hereby certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance No. 4,g -j 2 was introduced and considered section by section at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa held on the`! +L day of d 1966, and thereafter passed and adopt;!'. a whole a regular meeting of said City Council held on the /(f" day of �4 , 1966./ AYES: Councilmen , NOES: Councilmen �� /f M� v;a`t. ABSENT: Councilmen CVs"« "t , City Clerk and Ex -Officio Clerk (SEAL) of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa. - 5 - STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS. CITY OF COSTA MESA ) I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the County aforesaid; 1 am over the age of eighteen years, and not a party to or interested in the below entitled matter. I Legal am the- Ldrert J8Jng Manager of the ORANGE COAST DAILY PILOT, a newspaper of gen- eral circulation, printed and published in the City of Costa Mesa, County of Orange, State of California, and I certify e66-3Z:t- Ordinance N,..:,�er that_ 3 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_uiy 21,i966 I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on July 2l _ 19 66 costa Mesa at ,California. — 1i �� Rq�mu.e7 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.— 66-32 was introduced and considered, section by section, at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, held on the 5th day of July , 1966-, and thereafter passed and adopted as a whole at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 18th day of Jnly __ 196, by the following roll -call vote: AYES: COUNCILMEN - BARCK. TUMa- EMM-- - NOES: COUNCILMEN - ABSENT: COUNCILMEN - WILSON, JORDAN NONE I FURTHER CERTIFY that said Ordinance No66-32 was published in the ORANGE COAST DAILY PILOT, a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in the City of Costa Mesa, on the 21st—day of July , 196A. City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa 51 REunxs MESA DOES . 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