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Mountain City
Title 14 : Zoning and Land Use Control
Chapter 4 : Signs

14-401 : Findings, purpose and effect.

  1. Findings. The members of the board of mayor and aldermen hereby find as follows:
    1. Exterior signs have a substantial impact on the character and quality of the environment.
    2. Signs provide an important medium through which individuals may convey a variety of messages.
    3. Signs can create traffic hazards, aesthetic concerns and detriments to property values, thereby threatening the public health, safety and welfare.
    4. These regulations are meant to regulate the physical characteristics of signs within the town and to have a positive impact on traffic safety and the appearance of the community.
  2. Purpose and intent. It is not the purpose or intent of this chapter to regulate the message displayed on any sign, nor is it the purpose or intent of this chapter to regulate any building design or any display not defined as a sign, or any sign which cannot be viewed from outside a building. The purpose and intent of this chapter is to:
    1. Regulate the number, location, size, type, illumination and other physical characteristics of signs within the town in order to promote the public health, safety and welfare.
    2. Maintain, enhance and improve the aesthetic environment of the town by preventing visual clutter that is a threat to traffic safety and is harmful to the appearance of the community.
    3. Improve the visual appearance of the town while providing for effective means of communication, consistent with constitutional guarantees.
    4. Provide for fair and consistent enforcement of the sign regulations set forth herein under the zoning authority of the town.
    5. Simplify and streamline the provisions for signs in the Town of Mountain City, consolidate all code provisions regulating signs into one (1) singular sign ordinance.
  3. Effect. A sign may be erected, mounted, displayed or maintained in the town if it is in conformance with provisions of these regulations. The effect of this chapter, as more specifically set forth herein, is to:
    1. Allow a wide variety of sign types in commercial zones, and a more limited variety of signs in other zones, subject to the standards set forth in this chapter.
    2. Allow certain small, unobtrusive signs incidental to the principal use of a site in all zones when in compliance with the requirements of this chapter.
    3. Provide for temporary signs in limited circumstances.
    4. Prohibit signs whose location, size, type, illumination or other physical characteristics negatively affect the environment and where the communication can be accomplished by means having a lesser impact on the environment and the public health, safety and welfare.
    5. Provide for the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter. (Ord. #1332, July 2013)