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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.) - 1 - 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 - 2 - 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 - 3 -