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12.12.060 - Placement.

Part of the Code of Ordinances of Commerce, CA.

Local law · Updated May 13, 2025 · 2,277 sections

The text

All advertising displays hereafter constructed or erected within five hundred feet from a main traveled roadway of a freeway shall comply with the following rules and regulations with regard to location: (1)

They shall not be spaced at intervals of less than two hundred feet; provided, however, that, for the purposes of this section, "V" type structures shall be considered to be one structure.

(2)

They shall not be so located as to obstruct or impair, the view of pedestrians or motorists of pedestrian or vehicular traffic on an intersecting street.

(3)

They shall not be located within two hundred feet from the exterior boundaries of any parcel of property which is devoted to public or quasi-public, recreational, educational, religious, cultural or administrative uses.

(4)

They shall not be located within one hundred feet from the exterior boundaries of any parcel of property which is devoted, wholly or partially, to a residential use.

(5)

They shall not be located within any area required as a yard pursuant to the zoning regulations of the city.

(6)

Any advertising display of more than five hundred square feet in area shall be set back one additional foot from the building setback line for each ten square feet in excess of the five hundred square feet of sign area; provided, however, that the maximum required setback shall be forty feet.

(7)

They shall be so located as to duly respect the rights of other neighboring uses of property.

(Ord. 68 §2 (part), 1963; Ord. 64 §1 (part), 1962: prior code §7505).