ORD-27-86 URGENCY MEASURE REQUIRING CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CERTAIN OFF SITE SIGNS AND ESTABLISHING STANDARDS FOR THE APPROVAL DEPARTMENTORDZNANCE NO. 27-86
AN INTERZM ORDINANCE OF THE CITY GQUNCIL
OF THE CZTY OF ORANGE ADQPTED AS AN
URGENCY MEASURE REQUIRING A CONDITIONAL
USE PERMZT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CER-
TAIN OFF-SITE SIGNS AND ESTABLISHZNG
STANDARDS FOR THE APPROVAL THEREOF.
WHEREAS, Chapter 17 . 78 of the Orange Municipal Code
sets forth comprehensive regulations for the establishment
and location of signs and advertising structures in the
City; and
WHEREAS, for many years this Chapter qenerally pro-
hibited the establishment of off-site signs known familiarly
as "billboards" ; and
WAEREAS, nevertheless, this aforementioned Chapter has
allowed the establishment of certain types of off-site
signs; and
WxEREAS, as a result of permitting certain limited j
types of off-site signs, certain provisions of the afore-
mentioned Chapter 17 . 78 have been declared by the Federal
Court to be unconstitutional; and
WHEREAS, certain applications for billboards heretofore
filed by National Advertising Company and known familiarly
as "the eleven applications" are subject to special orders
of the Federal Court governing the processing of these i
eleven sign applications; and
WAEREAS, as to any applications filed or processed
subsequent to these eleven applications, the City desires to
establish standards for the review of any such subsequent
sign applications; and
WHEREAS, because of the secondary impacts which off-
site signs can produce on adjacent areas, the City Council
has determined that any subsequent off-site sign applica-
tions should require the filing of an application for a
conditional use permit for each such sign and that such
conditional use permit applications should be limited to the
M-1 (light manu£acturing) district and the M-2 {industrial)
district and further such applications should be subject to
the structural and design requirements imposed upon all I
signs as those requirements are more specifically set forth
in Chapter 17. 78 of the Orange Municipal Code; and
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WHEREAS, it is intended by this Ordinance enacted as an
urgency measure to apply the provisions hereof to applica-
tions for off-site signs filed subsequent to those eleven
applications heretofore filed by National Advertising Company.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE
DOES xEREBY ORDASN AS FOLLOWS:
Section I:
After the effective date of this Ordinance, all appli-
cations for any general or billboard advertising signs as
defined in Section 17. 78. 030F of the Orange Municipal Code
shall require the applicant, for each such sign, to file a
conditional use permit pursuant to the provisions of Chapter
17 . 92 of the Orange Municipal Code. Such conditional use
permits shall be permitted to be filed only as to real
property classified in the M-1 (liqht manufacturing} district
and the M-2 (industrial) district.
In addition to conforming to all structural, mechanical,
and design requirements of Chapter 17. 78 of the Orange
Municipal Code governing various types of structural signs,
including, but not limited to, ground signs, wall signs,
projecting signs, and roof signs, no parcel of real property
shall be permitted to vary from the location and site standards
or to exceed the size requirements set forth in Chapter
17 . 78. Neither shall any one parcel of property be allowed
more than one billboard. No separate parcel of property
sha11 be permitted to have located thereon any billboard in
excess of the sign area allowed to that parcel pursuant to
Chapter 17. 78. For example, a billboard which gualifies as
a ground siqn shall be limited to the maximum size of such a
sign as set forth in Chapter 17.78.
The size o£ any billboard proposed to be located on any
parcel of property on which other signs are located, shall
be limited as to size and advertising area in accordance
with the limitations contained in Chapter 17 . 78 .
Section II:
In addition to review by the Planning Commission,
review and approval of the City Council also shall be required
of any of the aforementioned conditional use permit applica-
tions filed for the M-1 and M-2 zones. No permits for
construction of billboards shall be issued except after
agproval of the Design Review Board which shall review all
such applications for compliance with the provisions of the
Orange Municipal Code and particularly Chapter 17 .78 dealing
with flashing, blinking, lighting, and mechanical moving
parts limitations as set forth in said Chapter. In addition,
no off-site billboard signs shall be approved which fail to
combine its advertising copy or message within rectangular
boundaries of the sign.
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Section III :
Nothing contained herein shall be construed to permit
the erection of any off-site signs or billboards which
violate any Municipal Ordinances, policies, or any other
applicable laws. Neither shall any billboard be permitted
to be constructed or located closer than 660 feet from the
property line of any £reeway.
Section IV:
The provisions of this interim Ordinance adopted as an
urgency measure shall become effective immediately upon
approval of this Ordinanoe and sha11 continue in effect for
forty-five (45} consecutive days from the date of adoption. i
Section V: i
The facts constituting the enactment of this Ordinance
as an urgency measure are as follows:
The ruling of a Federal Court in the case of National
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Advertising Company vs. City of Oranqe, et al. held portions
of the City' s sign regulations governing billboards to be
constitutionally invalid thus requiring that the City I
immediately enact an ordinance to establish rules to review
and approve applications other than those eleven billboard
applications now pending before the aforementioned Federal ii
Court. In view of the fact that many persons, firms, or
corporations may seek to propose the establishment and
construction of billboards within the City, it is important
that the City immediately enact an ordinance containing
provisions to review such applications. Failure to adopt an
interim ordinance may adversely affect the safety, health,
and welfare of the City of Orange inasmuch as billboard
applications may be filed without adequate standards to i
review and process these applications with a view to the
orderly growth and develogment of the City. This Ordinance
is adopted pursuant to Section 65858 of the California
Government Code.
ADOPTED this 23rd da e temb 1986.
ayor of the Gity of Orange
ATTEST: I
City Clerl of e ty of Orange
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF ORANGE
I, MARSLYN J. JENSEN, City Clerk of the City of Orange,
California, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance
No. 27_gb was regularly introduced, readinq in full was
waived, was read by Title, was passed and adopted at a
regular meeting of the City Council, City of Orange, Cali-
fornia held on the 23r day of Pprpmhpr . 19,_, by the
following vote to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: SMITH, BARRERA, MAYOR BEAM, PEREZ, BEYER
NOES: COUNCILMEN: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: NONE
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City Clerk of Cf'Ey of Orange
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