HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 957 ORDINANCE NO. 957
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
AZUSA AMENDING THE AZUSA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING
TO SIGNS IN MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.
The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1. Upon recommendation of the Planning Commission,
Subsection (e) of Section 9230.70 of the Azusa Municipal Code is
hereby amended to read in full, as follows:
"(e) In the M-1 and M-2 zones all signs permitted in the
C-2 and C-3 zones are allowed except that:
1. Height shall not exceed maximum allowable building
height limit.
2. An Industrial Park shall submit a Precise Plan of
all proposed signs, which will be reviewed by the Planning
Commission prior to the issuance of a building permit.
3. Directional signs are permitted and shall be so
designed as to guide or direct pedestrian or vehicular
traffic. The total sign area of each such sign shall not
exceed a maximum of six square feet.
4. One parcel identification sign shall be permitted
to identify a complex of several industrial buildings, on
one individual parcel; if the complex of several industrial
buildings fronts on more than one street, an additional
sign shall be allowed for each street frontage. The allow-
able area shall not exceed one square foot for each lineal
foot of building frontage or one square foot for each 1,000
square feet of developed parcel, whichever is greater, but
not to exceed the maximum sign area allowance of 150 square
feet. Said sign shall identify only the name of the indus-
trial complex (if any) and a directory of tenants or businesses.
No parcel sign may project over the public right-of-way.
5. Changeable copy signs shall be permitted as follows:
A) One sign for each business located on the
property with background area of sign not to exceed 30% of
the building facade to which it is applied, or four square
feet per lineal foot of building elevation, whichever is
greater.
1) Where a business has a main entrance on
more than one elevation of the building, such secondary
frontage may contain a changeable copy sign of the same
limitations as prescribed for the primary frontage.
2) Where a business has a secondary frontage,
but does not have a main entrance to the secondary frontage,
such frontage may contain a changeable copy sign not to
exceed 20% of the surface of the building facade to which it
is applied, or two square feet per lineal foot of business
frontage, whichever is greater.
B) If the changeable copy sign is free standing:
1) The total area shall not be larger than
one square foot per 50 square feet of building floor area
or one square foot of lot area, whichever is greater, with
a maximum sign area of 100 square feet, whether on individual
free standing changeable copy sign or on a free standing
changeable copy sign pertaining to more than one business
concern.
2) Where a business has a main entrance on
more than one elevation of the building, such secondary
frontage may contain an additional free standing changeable
copy sign of the same limitations as prescribed for the
primary frontage.
6. Signs not visible from a public right-of-way shall
be excluded from the provisions of this Subsection (e) .
7. For the purpose of this Subsection (e), an Industrial
Park is defined as a parcel of land subdivided for industrial
purposes. "
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage
of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as
required by law.
Passed and approved this 18th day of November
1968.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF AZUSA
I, DEAN F. KLARR, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, do
hereby certify that the above Ordinance No. 957 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting
of the City Council on the 4th day of November , 1968.
That, thereafter, said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a
regular meeting of the City Council on the 18th day of November
1968, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Rubio, Decker, Cooney, Calvert, Solem
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
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I do further certify that I caused said Ordinance to
be published prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the
passage thereof in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a newspaper
of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in the
City of Azusa, on the 27th day of November , 1968, and that
the same was 'published in accordance with law.
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Publish Azusa Herald & Pomotropic, November 27, 1968
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