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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1210 (Signs)CLERK'S CERTIFICATE I, MARION A. GRADY, City Clerk of the City-pf San Rafael, and Ex -officio Clerk of the Council of said City do hereby certify that the foregoing Charter Ordinance Pio. 1210 entitled: An URGENCY Ordinance of the City of San Rafael Repealing: Subsection 14.12.02 (27.) Subsection 14.12.03 B. and Subsection 14.024.04 D. of the San Rafael Municipal Code. is a true and correct copy of an ordinance of said City, and was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of San Rafael, held on,the 17th day of February 19 76 Published as re- quired by City Charter in the Independent Journal , a newspaper printed and published in the City of San Rafael and passed and adopted as an ordinance of said City at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on the 17th day of February 1976 by the following vote, to -wit: Ayes: Councilmen: Miskimen, Mulryan, Nixon and Mayor Bettini Noes: Councilmen: Jensen Absent: Councilman: None 14ITNESS my hand and the official seal of the City of San Rafael this /-5P/7,-day of /y%a1976 MARION A. GRADY, City Cleer ORDINANCE NO. 1210 AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL REPEALING: SUBSECTION 14.12.02 (27.) SUBSECTION 14.12.03 B. AND SUBSECTION 14.12.04 D. OF THE SAN RAFAEL MUNICIPAL CODE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: DIVISION 1. Subsection 14.12.02 (27.) of the San Rafael Municipal Code is hereby repealed. DIVISION 2. Subsection 14.12.02 (27.) is hereby re-enacted and shall read as follows: 14.12.02 (27.) Sign. A "sign" is any medium for visual communication which is used or intended to be used to attract attention to a location or subject matter for advertising, instruction or informa- tion purposes. DIVISION 3. Subsection 14.12.03 (b) of the San Rafael Municipal Code is hereby repealed. DIVISION 4. Subsection 14.12.03 (b) is hereby re-enacted and shall read as follows: 14.12.03 (b) Limitations on Illumination. 1. Direction of Lighting: No artificial light of whatever type or nature used in conjunction with, or for the purpose of lighting any sign shall be so located or constructed nor shall any substance or material capable of reflecting light be so placed as to result in directing such artificial light on or into any adjoining or nearby lots, structures, or public rights of way. When spotlights or floodlights are used to illuminate a sign, the reflector shall be provided with proper glass lenses concentrating the illumina- tion upon the area of the sign so as to prevent glare upon the street or adjacent property. 2. Concealing Light Source: Whenever -an il- luminated advertising device is permitted, every part of its light source, except neon tubes and incandescent filament bulbs having a wattage of 15 watts or less, shall be concealed from view, and the light shall not travel from such light sources straight to the viewer's eye, but instead shall be visible only from a reflecting or diffusing - 1 - surface. As used herein, "light source" means a bulb or tube from which light is emitted when the bulb or tube is activated (electroni- cally or otherwise), including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, incandescent filament bulb, electric discharge bulb, neon tube, and florescent tube. 3. Flashing Changing Color, Animation, Moving Textual Messages: Prohibited. (See Sectiors 14.12.07 A.(3), A.(4), B. (1) , B.(2) and B. (5) . 4. When Adjacent to a Residence: No sign within two hundred (200) feet of and facing a residential area shall be illuminated to an intensity in excess of one-half of that of public street lights nearest to where the sign is located. DIVISION 5, Subsection 14.12.04 D. of the San Rafael Municipal Code is hereby repealed. DIVISION 6. This Urgency Ordinance is an Ordinance for the immediate preservation of planning objectives, economic goals, and the general welfare of the citizens of San Rafael. The facts consti- tuting the urgency are that the Superior Court of the County of Marin has enjoined the City of San Rafael from enforcing the existing Sign Ordinance through Civil or Criminal judicial proceedings and has de- clared portions of the Sign Ordinance unconstitutional. Without authority to enforce the Ordinance, numerous signs are blossoming throughout San Rafael creating economic and visual blight. New businesses and new business requirements demand immediate enactment of an Ordinance permitting the erection, alteration, and modification of signpand providing the City with an enforceable Ordinance prior to visual and economic decay, DIVISION 7. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The Council hereby declares that it would have adopted the Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared invalid. C,* BETT , Mayor Attest: MARION A. GRADY, City C rk In The above and foregoing Ordinance No. 1210 was adopted as an Urgency Ordinance of the City of San Rafael at a regular meeting of the City Council of San Rafael held on the 17th day of February , 1976, by the following vote, to -wit: AYES: COUNCILMEN: Miskimen, Mulryan, Nixon and Mayor Bettini NOES: COUNCILMEN: Jensen ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None MARION A. GRADY, City Cferk -- 3