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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - No. 835ORDINANCE NO. 835 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 27-13&)(3) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF LODI AND ADDING SECTION 27-13@)(3A), COMMERCIAL SHOPPING DISTRICTS THEREBY CHANGING THE REGULATIONS FOR SIGNS IN C-S The City Council of the City of Lodi does ordain as follows: Section 1. Section 27-13&)(3) of the Code of the City of Lodi is hereby amended to read in full as follows: (3) Neighborhood Commercial Zones. Signs are permitted in the C-1 zones, subject to a. b. C. the following regulations: Signs may not exceed a height of thirty-five feet. Signs may not project more than one foot over the public right of way, except that signs may be mounted on a marquee in the public right of way provided: (i) Signs shall be placed flush and have a maximum height of two feet when attached to the front of a marquee. (ii) Signs placed under a marquee shall not exceed five square feet. (iii) Theater marquee signs, when an integral part of a marquee, ' may overhang the public right of way a distance of ten feet. (iv) In no case shall such signs extend closer than two feet from the back of the curb. Total area of signs on a property may not exceed one square foot of The maximum size sign area for each lineal foot of street frontage. of any one sign shall be three hundred (300) square feet. Section 2. There is hereby added after Section 27-13&)(3) of the Code of the City of Lodi the following section: (3A) Commercial Shopping Zones. to the following regulations : Signs are permitted in the C-S zone subject 1. a. The ratio for calculating maximum sign Area for individual businesses within a Commercial Shopping Zone shall be two square feet of sign area for each one foot of lineal building frontage. b. The maximum sign area for individual businesses located on corners (i. e., building frontage on two sides) within a Commercial Shopping Zone shall be calculated at seventy-five per cent of the ratio of two square feet of sign area for each one foot of lineal building frontage. c. Signs for individual businesses shall be flush mounted, indirectly lighted and shall not extend above the height of the building on which they are mounted. d. Free- standing signs which identify the shopping center: (i) May not project more than one foot over the public right of way and in no case shall such signs extend closer than two feet from the back of curb. (ii) Shall be a maximum of six hundred (600) square feet for all readable srrqfaces. sign area may be used for individual business identification signs uniform in size, shape and lettering, not more than one (1) foot by five (5) feet in dimension and available to businesses having a minimum of ten (10) per cent of the building frontage. One hundred (100) square feet of the total (iii) Shall have a maximum height of thirty-five (35) feet and shall be a minimum of ten (lo} feet from finished grade. (iv) Shall be limited to one per shopping center except that shopping centers of ten (10) acres or more may have two free-standing identification signs subject to the approval of the Planning Com- mission. Shall not contain "reader boards. 'I (v) 2. Section 3. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed insofar as such conflict may exist. Section 4. This ordinance shall be published one time in the "Lodi News Sentinel, I' a daily newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the City of Lodi, and shall be in force and take effect thirty days from and after its passage and approval. Approved this 5th day n {kZ< Attest: Beatrice Garib City Clerk State of California, County of San Joaquin, ss. I, Beatrice Garibaldi, City Clerk of the City of Lodi, that Ordinance No. 835 WLS introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Lodi held March 15, 1967, and was thereafter passed, adopted and ordered to print at a regular meeting held April 5, 1967, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen Brown, Culbertson, Hunnell, Kirsten and Walton NOES: Hone ABSENT: None Mayor I further certify that Ordinance No. 8.35 was approwedand signqd by the 3.