Tehama Municipal Code Art. III Signing and Building Numbering

To facilitate locating a fire and to avoid delays in response, all newly constructed or approved roads, streets, and buildings shall be designated by names or numbers, posted on signs clearly visible and legible from the roadway. This section shall not restrict the size of letters or numbers appearing on street signs for other purposes.

(Ord. 1537 § 1(part), 1991)

Size of letters, numbers, and symbols for street and road signs shall be:

A. At least four inch letter height and half-inch stroke;

B. Reflectorized; and

C. Contrasting with the background color of the sign.

(Ord. 1537 § 1(part), 1991)

(Ord. No. 2023, §§ 31, 32, 5-3-2016)

Street and road signs shall be visible and legible from both directions of vehicle travel for a distance of at least one hundred feet.

(Ord. 1537 § 1(part), 1991)

Height of street and road signs shall be uniform county wide, and meet the visibility and legibility standards of this article.

(Ord. 1537 § 1(part), 1991)

Newly constructed or approved public and private roads and streets must be identified by a name or number through a consistent countywide system that provides for sequenced or patterned numbering and/or nonduplicating naming within each county. All signs shall be mounted and oriented in a uniform manner. This section does not require any entity to rename or renumber existing roads or streets, nor shall a roadway providing access only to a single commercial or industrial occupancy require naming or numbering.

(Ord. 1537 § 1(part), 1991)

Signs required by this article identifying intersecting roads, streets and private lanes shall be placed at the intersection of those roads, streets, and/or private lanes.

(Ord. 1537 § 1(part), 1991)

A sign identifying traffic access or flow limitations, including but not limited to weight or vertical clearance limitations, dead-end road, one-way road or single lane conditions, shall be placed:

A. At the intersection preceding the traffic access limitation, and

B. No more than one hundred feet before such traffic access limitation.

(Ord. 1537 § 1(part), 1991)

Road, street and private lane signs required by this article shall be installed prior to final acceptance by the county.

(Ord. 1537 § 1(part), 1991)

(Ord. No. 2023, §§ 33, 34, 5-3-2016)

All buildings shall be issued an address by the Tehama County Planning Department. Accessory buildings will not be required to have a separate address; however, each dwelling unit within a building shall be separately identified.

(Ord. 1537 § 1(part), 1991)

(Ord. No. 2023, §§ 35, 36, 5-3-2016)

Size of letters, numbers, and symbols for addresses shall be:

A. At least four inch letter height and half-inch stroke;

B. Reflectorized; and

C. Contrasting with the background color of the sign.

Address identification shall be plainly legible and visible from the street or road fronting the property. Addresses shall be Arabic numbers or alphabetical letters. Where access is by means of a private road and the address identification cannot be viewed from the public way, a monument, pole, or other sign or means shall be used to identify the address.

(Ord. 1537 § 1(part), 1991)

(Ord. No. 2023, §§ 37, 38, 5-3-2016)

A. All buildings shall have a permanently posted address, which shall be placed at each driveway entrance and visible from both directions of travel along the road. In all cases, the address shall be posted at the beginning of construction and shall be maintained thereafter, and the address shall be visible and legible from the road on which the address is located.

B. Address signs along one-way roads shall be visible from both the intended direction of travel and the opposite direction.

C. Where multiple addresses are required at a single driveway, they shall be mounted on a single post.

D. Where a roadway provides access solely to a single commercial or industrial business, the address sign shall be placed at the nearest road intersection providing access to that site.

(Ord. 1537 § 1(part), 1991)