Santa Paula Municipal Code Ch. 16.48 Sign Regulations

Section

Division 1: General Provisions

Division 2: Prohibited Signs

Division 3: Exempt Signs

Division 4: Sign Permits

Division 5: Permit Applications

Division 6: Action on Permit Applications

Division 7: Permit Conditions

Division 8: Appeals

Division 9: Master Sign Plan

Division 10: Calculation of Sign Area and Height

Division 11: Temporary Signs

Division 12: Dealership Signs

Division 13: Regulations by Zone

Division 14: Nonconforming Signs

Division 15: Sign Removal

This chapter is adopted pursuant to the city's police powers as set forth in the California Constitution for the following purposes:

(A) To implement the Santa Paula General Plan;

(B) To maintain and improve the city's aesthetics to promote public welfare;

(C) To protect public health and safety by improving vehicle and pedestrian traffic safety;

(D) To establish objective standards for regulating and controlling the design, construction, maintenance, number, and placement of signs within the City of Santa Paula;

(E) To balance freedom of expression with reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions for protecting public health, safety, and welfare;

(F) To establish, preserve, and promote specific areas within the city in order to support economic development; and

(G) To avoid creation of public nuisances when temporary signs are intentionally or unintentionally discarded.

(H) Nothing in this chapter is intended to, nor does it, regulate anything but the time, place, and manner that signs may be used within the city's jurisdiction.

(Ord. 1122, passed 10-18-04)

This chapter regulates signs placed on private and public property located within the City of Santa Paula. For signs on public property, this chapter applies only to public property not owned or controlled by the City of Santa Paula and over which the city may exert its land use regulations. Signs on public property owned or controlled by the city are subject to separate codes, regulations, or policies not set forth in this chapter.

(Ord. 1122, passed 10-18-04)