Chapter 16.48 — SIGN REGULATIONS

This chapter is adopted pursuant to the city's police powers as set forth in the California Constitution for the following purposes:

• (A) To implement the Santa Paula General Plan;

• (B) To maintain and improve the city's aesthetics to promote public welfare;

• (C) To protect public health and safety by improving vehicle and pedestrian traffic safety;

(D) To establish objective standards for regulating and controlling the design, construction, maintenance, number, and placement of signs within the City of Santa Paula;

(E) To balance freedom of expression with reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions for protecting public health, safety, and welfare;

(F) To establish, preserve, and promote specific areas within the city in order to support economic development; and

(G) To avoid creation of public nuisances when temporary signs are intentionally or unintentionally discarded.

(H) Nothing in this chapter is intended to, nor does it, regulate anything but the time, place, and manner that signs may be used within the city's jurisdiction.

(Ord. 1122, passed 10-18-04)

This chapter regulates signs placed on private and public property located within the City of Santa Paula. For signs on public property, this chapter applies only to public property not owned or controlled by the City of Santa Paula and over which the city may exert its land use regulations. Signs on public property owned or controlled by the city are subject to separate codes, regulations, or policies not set forth in this chapter.

(Ord. 1122, passed 10-18-04)