Martinez Municipal Code Ch. 16.20 Purpose

The purpose of this chapter and Chapters 16.24 through 16.68 is to provide minimum standards to safeguard life, health, property and the public welfare by regulating and controlling the design, materials, construction, size, location and maintenance of signs and sign structures. These regulations further have the purpose of allowing for identification of a business in a manner that is most harmonious with an aesthetic and functional business district, to encourage signs that are well designed and pleasing in appearance, and to reduce overhead clutter and enhance property values It is not the intent of these regulations that on-site signs be used for general advertising purposes as opposed to identifying the business to which the sign relates.

(Prior code § 10,201.0; Ord. 822 C.S. § 2, 1975)