HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1209 (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 P10. 1209
entitled:
An ordinance of the City of San Rafael amending
Title 14 of the San Rafael Municipal bode Section
14.12.06 - Signs not requiring sign review.
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 2nd
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 lg 76 by the following
vote, to -wit:
Ayes: Councilmen: Miskimen, Nixon and Mayor Bettini
Noes: Councilmen: Jensen and Mulryan
Absent: Councilman: None
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of
the City of San Rafael this /-moi, day of
47r:-,/'. 19 76
MARION A. GRADY, City Clerk✓///�
ORDINANCE NO. 1209
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL AMENDING
TITLE 14 OF THE SAN RAFAEL MUNICIPAL CODE
SECTION 14.12.06 - SIGNS NOT REQUIRING SIGN REVIEW
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
DIVISION 1. Chapter 14.12, Section 14.12.06, Subsection
(Q)(6) of the Municipal Code of the City of San Rafael is hereby
amended and shall read as follows:
(Q)(6) Service Station: temporary signs, and temporary
or permanent signs relating to credit cards or trading stamps, and
gasoline prices; nonilluminated or indirectly illuminated:
a. Two outside merchandise display stands may be
located no farther than six (6) feet from the face of the principal
building (connected canopy is not considered as part of the principal
building) providing that each does not exceed five (5) feet in height,
three (3) feet in width nor thirty (30) cubic feet in area. Signs
on a stand shall be limited to advertising the merchandise located
on the stand. "A" and "I" frame sign boards shall not be considered
"merchandise stands" within the meaning of this section.
b. On the inside of the office windows: Limited
to twenty-four (24) square feet total area, 250 of any individual
window and not more than two (2) signs. An application for sign
review may be submitted to request the designation of a specific
area on the building face as an alternative if due to building de-
sign there are no windows on a street face or if visibility through
windows is obscured because the glass is tinted.
C. On gasoline pumps: At such times as there are
no signs posted in windows (as an alternative to subsection "b",
above), signs may be -posted on the face of or inside the glass on
each gasoline pump or mounted on top of the pump. When on top of
the pump, the sign area shall not exceed eighteen (18) inches in
height above the pump or more than twenty-four (24) inches in
length; and the maximum number of signs that may be at any single
pump location is four. ("pump location" is defined to mean the one
or more rows of pumps that are located under a single canopy; or
where no canopy exists, that are grouped and oriented in a manner
to primarily provide service to one street frontage when a station
has frontage on more than one street.)
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d. Price signs readable from adjacent streets: may be
located in lieu of other advertising as set forth in subsections
"b" or "c" above. The contents of these signs shall be in accord-
ance with requirements of the State of California as to wording,
size of words, and numbers. The colors shall be black letters on
a white background.
e. Alternatives: for those service stations where the
relation between the building/pump location and the street is
such that alternative sign locations would be more sightly and
effective in appearance and would not increase the total amount
of signing on the site (such as on the columns supporting a gas
island canopy), assign review applicatiorl'requesting the permanent
establishment of such alternative locations may be submitted to
and approved by the Planning Director.
DIVISION 2. 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.
DIVISION 3. The Ordinance shall be published once in full
before its final passage in the Independent Journal , a newspaper of
general circulation, printed, published, and circulated in the City
of San Rafael, and shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days
after its final passage.
Attest:
MARION A. GRADY, City G.Yerk
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C. PAUL BETTINI, Mayor
The above and foregoing Ordinance No. 1209 was read and
introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
San Rafael, held on the 2nd day of February 1976, and
ordered passed to print by the following vote, to -wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Mi skimen, Mul ryan, Nixon and Mayor Betti ni
NOES: COUNCILMEN: Jensen
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None
and will come up for adoption as an Ordinance of the City
of San Rafael at a regular meeting of the Council to be held on the
17th day of February , 1976.
MARION A. GRADY, City Clerk
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