§ 21.44.830. Number, location, spacing, form, and substitution/removal requirements.

The following requirements shall apply regarding the number, spacing, and form of electronic message center signs, as well as substitution for other sign types and removal of other sign types:

A.

Number. One (1) EMCS shall be allowed for each six hundred feet (600') of total street frontage on a qualifying site (the total may include street frontage more than one (1) street for sites bounded by multiple streets).

B.

Location.

1.

Upon subject site. No electronic message center sign shall be located closer to any interior side property line than twenty-five feet (25'). Lots adjoining freeway or railroad right-of-way may locate an EMCS on the property line adjoining such right-of-way.

2.

Distance from residential. All EMCS shall have a minimum separation of one hundred feet (100') from a residential district.

C.

Spacing.

1.

Between EMCS on same frontage. A radius of three hundred feet (300') shall be required between each EMCS on the same property, on the same street frontage.

2.

Between EMCS on different frontage. No EMCS shall be located less than one hundred feet (100') from another EMCS on a different street frontage (for example, an EMCS on each frontage of a corner lot) on the same property or site.

3.

Between EMCS and freestanding/monument signs. The minimum distance required between a freestanding/monument sign and an electronic message center sign shall be one hundred feet (100').

4.

Between EMCS on different properties. No EMCS shall be located less than three hundred feet (300') from another EMCS on a different property or site.

5.

Freeway-oriented EMCS. A radius of six hundred sixty feet (660') shall be required between all freeway-oriented electronic message center signs. For freeway-oriented EMCS, and EMCS located adjacent to other State highways, if the requirements of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) are more restrictive, those requirements shall control.

D.

Sign form. An EMCS may take the form or style of a freestanding sign, monument sign, or wall sign only. Other forms are prohibited.

E.

Substitution for freestanding/monument signs and other sign removal. For each EMCS to be emplaced, two (2) freestanding or monument signs, if extant, shall be removed from the subject site, on the same street frontage as the EMCS. Additional removal of other on-premises sign(s) may be required by the Planning Commission as a condition of approval.

( ORD-13-0014 , § 19(Att. A), 2013)