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1655 ORDINANCE NO. 1655 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANFORD, FLORIDA, AMENDING SECTION 22-16 (j)(3), ADDING SECTION 22-16 (j)(4) AND AMENDING SECTION 22-17 (h) QF THE SANFORD CITY CODE, SAID SECTION PROVIDING FOR ERECTION OF GROUND SIGNS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, CONFLICTS AND: EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF SANFORD, FLORIDA: SECTION 1: That Section 22-16 (j)(3) providing for the erection of ground signs, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: (3) Maximum area. Maximum area of a ground sign shall be one hundred fifty (150) square feet. Such one hundred fifty (150) square feet shall apply per business establishment with a maximum of two (2) such signs per each one hundred (100) feet of street frontage. The total area of all signs facing each street frontage shall be within the allowable square footage ~nd within a single sign structure or frame. Larger signs shall be subject to review by the planning and zoning commission and variance approval by the board of adjustment. Mobile trailer signs shall be computed as ground signs in determining the allowable maximum area for a site. SECTION 2: That Section 22-16 (j)(4) providing for the erection of ground signs be added to read as follows: (4) Ground signs shall have a minimum spacing of one hundred fifty (150) feet between any two ground signs on the same property. SECTION 3: That Section 22-17 (h) providing for the erection of ground signs, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: (h) Mobile trailer signs. A mobile trailer sign shall mean a point of purchase advertising sign or any material for such use with or without changeable type lettering, illuminated or nonillum- inated, mounted on a boat type trailer, trailer frame complete with axle and wheels, and capable of being towed over the road as a trailer. A mobile trailer sign shall be considered to be a temporary sign and as such, the copy area of such mobile trailer sign shall be in addition to the maximum allow- able copy area for the point-of-sale signs. No mobile trailer sign shall be located in any public right- of-way. Each company engaged in the renting, leasing, owning or other- wise providing for hire any mobile trailer sign shall be properly licensed as required by law and shall, prior to dis- playing each sign upon any business premise, secure a permit for each said sign from the office of the building official of the city. A permit shall be valid for a period of no longer than sixty (60) days for any one business. A permit cannot be renewed, nor can a permit be obtained for the same business nor another business on the same site within a period of one hundred eighty (180) days following expiration of a prior per- mit for a mobile sign on the same property. The placement of a mobile trailer sign in a parking space which is required to meet the minimum parking requirements of the city shall be prohibited. Mobile trailer signs, exclusive of the transportation mechanism, shall not exceed fifty (50) square feet in area per face. All mobile trailer signs shall be limited to commercial and industrial districts. Churches and non profit organizations shall be permitted signs within their property boundaries. There shall be a maximum of one mobile trailer sign per busi- ness location with a minimum spacing of one hundred fifty (150) feet between any two (2) portable mobile trailer signs on the same side of the street and no mobile signs shall be placed within one hundred fifty (150) feet of a ground sign located on the same business property, All incandescent bulbs in, on, or attached to any mobile trailer signs shall be rated at not more than one hundred (100) watts. Flashing illumination shall be prohibited on mobile trailer signs. No more than ten (10) flood bulbs per face on each mobile trailer sign shall be permitted. Each mobile sign shall, in addition to the provisions set forth herein, comply with the requirements of applicable codes of the city. Each mobile trailer sign shall have permanently affixed and predominantly displayed, the name and telephone number of the owner of the sign. A master copy of the engineering data and approval must be on file in the building department of the city, for all mobile trailer signs placed within the city. If, after one working day following receipt of written notice of a violation of the City Code to the owner of a mobile trailer sign, corrections are not made, then the city shall be empowered to remove the said mobile trailer sign from the location constituting the violation and impound the same. To have the mobile trailer sign released, the owner of the said mobile trailer sign shall pay to the city an impounding fee in the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00). Mobile trailer signs shall require a permit prior to being located or placed at a business establishment within the city, such permit to be secured from the building department of the city. The permit fee shall be in the sum of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per permit or any renewal thereof for each sign placed within the city. SECTION 4: If any section or portion of a section of this ordinance proves to be invalid, unlawful or unconstitutional, it shall not be held to invalidate or impair the validity, force or effect of any othe~ ~seetion~or par~7 of th~Sordinance. SECTION 5: That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed. SECTION 6: This ordinance shall become effective immediately upon its passage and adoption. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 26~h.~~Ttember , A.D. 1983. MAYOR ATTEST: City of Sanford, Florida. CERTIFICATE I, H. N. Tamm, Jr., City Clerk of the City of San- ford, Florida, do hereby certify that a true and correct copy of the foregoing Ordinance No. 1655, PASSED and ADOPTED by the City Commission of the City of Sanford, Florida, on the 26th dayof September, 1983, was POSTED at the front door of the City Hall in the City of Sanford, Florida, on the 27th day of September, 1983.