§ 17.32.040. Sign mounting.

No sign shall be mounted in a manner which may obstruct traffic, or public safety devices or signs.

No signs shall be affixed to trees, utility poles, fences fronting on a public right-of-way, lamp posts or any public street furniture or placed in the public right-of-way, except public safety devices and signs.

All signs shall be securely affixed to a building facade or ground structure.

No sign shall be mounted on or attached to or obstruct a movable door or window except as allowed in this chapter.

All sign faces shall be parallel to the horizontal plane of the building, except for allowed awning and canopy signs and marquees. All existing signs which do not conform with the provisions of this chapter shall be removed or brought into compliance within thirty days of the property owner being notified by the department of inspectional services that a sign is noncompliant.

Those projecting signs still remaining at the time of the adoption of the ordinance codified in this chapter shall be ordered to be removed within one year of the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter. If the owners or landlords of such signs are able to produce a valid sign permit issued by the department of inspectional services for such signs, then they will have two years from the adoption of the ordinance codified in this chapter to remove them. The responsibility for removing such signs shall fall upon either the store or business owner if they are the sign owner of record; if not, it will be the responsibility of the property owner to remove the sign(s). The permit fee for the removal or replacement of projecting signs will be waived during the two year period mentioned above. When the projecting signs are removed, it is not necessary to replace them with any other of the permitted types of signs in this chapter.

All appurtenances shall meet state building code requirements.

(Ord. 98-024 § 2 (part))