HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1902ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CENTRAL POINT MUNICIPAL
CODE BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION CHAPTER 15.24, SECTIONS
15.24.290,15.24.540, AND 15.24.600-630 PERTAINING TO THE SIGN CODE
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF CENTRAL POINT, OREGON DO ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Title 15 of the Central Point Municipal Code is hereby amended to add and to
delete portions of 15.24.290 as follows:
15.24.290 Certain lights, flashing arrows and devices prohibited.
It is unlawful for the following to be erected or to be maintained except as otherwise
provided in this chapter;
A. A sign that interferes in any way with a traffic control sign or device or prevents clear
and unobstructed view of official traffic control signs or devices or approaching or
mergingtraffic;
affic;
B A sign on which copy is created through the use of a pattern of lights in a dot matrix
configuration which may be changed intermittently; except that any existing sign now
violating this ordinance after having been previously authorized and erected, shall not be
deemed unlawful.
C A sign that contains includes or is illuminated by any flashing or revolving, rotating
or moving light or moves or has any animated or moving parts. This subsection does not
gp_ply to traffic control signs or devices; and
D A sign with lighting which is not effectively shielded as to prevent beams or rays of
light from being directed at any portion of the main traveled right-of-way of a state
highway, or an arterial street or is of such low intensity or brilliance as not to cause glare
or to impair the vision of the driver of a motor vehicle or otherwise to interfere with the
operations thereof,
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For purposes of this section "traffic control sign or device" means a sign erected by the
City of Central Point, Jackson County, the state of Oregon or the United States.
Section 2. Title 15 of the Central Point Municipal Code is hereby amended to add and to
delete portions of 15.24.530 and 15.24.540 as follows:
15.24.530 Board of appeals.
A. There is created a board to be known as the sign code board of appeals, hereinafter
referred to as "the board." The board shall consist of the members of the Central Point
City Council be appointed by the mayor- and shall eensist of seven fnefilber-s Who a
B. No member of the board shall act in any case in which he is personally interested.
G. The ma�,er- shall appoint the members of the iaitW board for- staggered tei:ms. Two
member -s for- one year-, twe fer- twe years and dffee fer- dwee years. Subsequent appoint
D The shall., .. the board a ey resignation,
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regular- meetings of the beafd Ufliess sueh fnember- was absent dide te illness er- ififiess in
L The board shall fneet ..t least s ,.,11.. Additional � a1 fneetings may be
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days'
shall be subjeet to the appr-eval of a faajefit-y of the . (Ord. 965,1969: Ord. 961,
1969: Ord. 928 §55, 1968).
15.24.540 Right of appeal --Procedure.
A. Any person who has been ordered by the building official to incur an expense for
the alteration or removal of any sign, or any person whose application for a permit for a
sign has been refused, may appeal to the board by filing written notice with the city
recorder WITHIN SEVEN DAYS OF THE TRANSMITTAL OF THE ORDER OR
DENIAL.
B. Any person appealing from an order or action of the building official shall, upon
forms supplied by the building official, file a notice of appeal and shall accompany the
notice with a check in the
amount defined in the Ci 's adopted fee schedule. If the appeal is sustained, the check
shall be returned to the applicant but if the appeal is not sustained, the check shall be
retained by the city as its reasonable costs of processing the appeal.
C. Upon the filing of a notice of appeal, the building official shall take no further
action with regard to the sign involved until the final decision of the board on the appeal
unless the building official finds that the sign involved, by reason of its condition,
presents an immediate and serious danger to the public, in which case, he shall proceed
immediately as provided in Section 15.24.140. (Ord. 928 §56, 1968).
Section 3. Title 15 of the Central Point Municipal Code is hereby amended to add and to
delete portions of 15.24.600, 15.24.610, 15.24.620 and 15.24.630 pertaining to signs
along arterials, collectors and freeways:
15.24.600 Signs along arterials, collectors and freeways --Restrictions.
Notwithstanding any other provision contained in this code,
where-sneh
signs any sign visible from AN ARTERIAL, COLLECTOR OR freeway shall comply
with the following_ provisions:
A. No more than one free-standing sign per parcel or lot.
B. The sign shall be no higher than sixty (60) feet from existing grade aid
W4 the hi&st point ef the sign is not higher- than eighty
(80) feet above the 5found level upon whieh the sign is P! ; and
C. Contain not over difee htmdr-ed (3 00) one hundred (100) square feet of advertising
surface.
All applicable strength and safety requirements shall apply to signs placed under this
section. (Ord. 1823 §2, 2001; Ord. 1710 §2, 1994; Ord. 928 §62, 1968).
15.24.610 Signs along arterials. collectors and freeways --Removal when.
A sign for which a permit has become validly granted but which sign does not conform to
Section 15.24.600 shall not be continued after October 1, 1968, or until said sign is
removed, whichever occurs earlier. If such nonconforming sign is in existence on
October 2, 1968, the city administrator shall notify, in writing, the holder of the permit
for such sign to remove the same within fifteen days. If upon the expiration of said
fifteen -day period the sign is not removed, the city may remove the same and said permit
holder shall be liable to the city for the costs of removal. (Ord. 928 §63, 1968).
15.24.630 Permits --Expiration.
Every permit issued by the building department under the provisions of this code shall
expire and become void if the building or work authorized by such permit is not
commenced within sib 180 days from the date of such permit, or if the building or
work authorized by such permit is suspended or abandoned at any time after the work is
commenced for a period of one hundred twenty eighty (180) days. Before such work can
be recommenced, a new permit shall be flFs4 obtained. to do se and the fee r-equi
has not • aited one -yeu. (Ord. 928 §66, 1968).
Section 4. Emergency Clause. This ordinance being immediately necessary for the safe,
orderly and lawful administration of the sign code along public roads and due to conflicts
and inconsistencies in the present code, the second reading is waived pursuant to CPMC
section 2.04.020 and an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance shall be
in full force and effect immediately upon its passage.
Passed by the City Court'anned by me in authentication of its passage this
day of -- '1 d sig
, 2007.
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Mayor Hank Williams
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City Recorder 42
Approved by me this 4:E day of , 2007.
Mayor Hank Williams