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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 098 1988 0720ORDINANCE NO. 98 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 82 AS ADOPTED BY THE CITY MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA ON NOVEMBER 3, 1983, PERTAINING TO THE SIGN CODE. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Moorpark does hereby find, determine and declare that: A. The amendment to the zoning ordinance set forth below, was duly initiated, in accordance with applicable laws; B. Public hearings thereon were duly held by the Planning Commission of the City of Moorpark on June 20, 1988 and by the City Council of the City of Moorpark on July 20, 1988. C. On July 5, 1988 the Planning Commission of the City of Moorpark, by Resolution No. PC -88 -175 recommended to the City Council: 1. A finding is hereby made that this amendment to the Moorpark Municipal Code is categorically exempt under Section 15308 (actions by regulatory agencies for protection of the environment) of the State EIR guidelines and requires no further environmental review. 2. Directed staff to prepare a resolution recommending approval to the City Council of the proposed amendment. D. The City Council has considered all of the information presented to it at the public hearing held on July 20, 1988 and determined that the public necessity, convenience, general welfare and good zoning practice require that the following amendment be made; E. in taking this action, the City Council finds that the amendment to the Zoning ordinance, as set forth below, is consistent with the General Plan. SECTION 2. Chapter 50 (Sign - Standards and Permits) of Title 9 (Zoning Ordinance) is hereby amended by adding Section 9.50.091 as follows: Section 9.50.091 - POLITICAL SIGNS- The purpose of this section is to prevent damage to public property, protect the integrity of the electoral process and prevent the erosion of aesthetic quality and historic values within the City. It is specifically recognized that if temporary political signs on private property are not removed after the election is held, the deteriorating signs and accumulating debris become a blight, defacing the landscape. It is therefore an intent of this Article to make provision for the erection and removal of such signs after the election which they publicized has been held. Sec. 9.50.091.1 - Political Signs on Private Property- No temporary political sign shall exceed sixteen (16) square feet in area. The aggregate area of all temporary signs placed or maintained on any lot in one ownership shall not exceed eighty square feet. Sec. 9.50.091.2 - Time Limit for Political Signs - Political signs may and must be removed within ten days following the election. Sec. 9.50.091.3 - Political Sign Registration - In order to keep track of the placement of temporary political signs to assure removal subsequent to an election, such signs shall be registered with the Community Development Department by the candidate or his or her registered agent, or, when a ballot proposition is involved, by an authorized agent of the group or organization sponsoring the signs, prior to the distribution of such signs for the attachment or installation on any property. Registration of political signs shall be on forms available in the Community Development Department and shall be accompanied by an agreement signed by the candidate or his or her authorized agent, or when a ballot proposition is involved, by an authorized agent of the group or organization sponsoring the signs, that within ten calendar days after the election all political signs shall be removed, and a certified statement by the registrant that consent will be obtained from each owner of the property on which a sign is to be posted. Sec. 9.50.091.4 - Location - Political signs may not be affixed, installed, or erected within 100 feet of a polling place or historic site, nor within 660 feet of the edge of a "Scenic Highway" or a freeway, nor in any location where the sign will impair sight distance or create a hazard to traffic or pedestrians, nor on any telephone pole, lamppost, tree, wall, fence, bridge, bench, hydrant, curbstone, sidewalk or other structure in or upon any public right -of -way, nor upon any other public property. Sec. 9.50.091.5 - Enforcement - Except for signs remaining posted after the post - election deadline, any political sign not posted in accordance with the provisions of this Article shall be deemed to be a public nuisance and shall be subject to removal by the candidate, property owner, or, when a ballot proposition is involved, the authorized agent of the group or organization sponsoring the sign or, upon their failure to do so after reasonable attempt at notice by the City, by City officers or zoning inspectors. Any political sign which is not removed within the ten days following an election shall be subject to summary removal and confiscation by the City. SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall become effective thirty (30) days after its passage and adoption. SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this ordinance; shall enter the same in the book of original ordinances of said City; shall make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City Council at which the same is passed and adopted; and shall, within fifteen (15) days after the passage and adoption thereof, cause the same to be published once in the Moorpark News, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, as defined in Section 6008 of the Government Code, for the City of Moorpark, and which is hereby designated for that purpose. SECTION 5. Severability - If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or word of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council of the City of Moorpark hereby declares that it would have passed and adopted this Ordinance and each and all provisions may be declared invalid. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 27th day of July 1988. 1) 0<041r ohn Patrick Lane, Mayor of the City of Moorpark, California ATTEST: & JaZZ ),ZI 1 14 (Seal) Maureen W. Wall, City Clerk STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF VENTURA ) SS. CITY OF MOORPARK ) I, Maureen W. wall, City Clerk of the City of Moorpark, California, do hereby certify under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing Ordinance No. 98 was regularly introduced and approved for first reading at a meeting of the City Council on the 20th day of July 1988, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Councilmembers Harper and Perez and Mayor Pro Tem Brown. NOES: None. ABSTAIN: Councilmember Galloway and Mayor Lane. ABSENT: None. and, that said ordinance was duly approved for second reading and adopted at a meeting of the City Council on the 27th day of July 1988, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Councilmembers Brown, Galloway, Harper, Perez and Mayor Lane. NOES: None. ABSTAIN: None. ABSENT: None. WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this 4th day of August 1988