17.60.050 Sign location restrictions.
A. Signs shall not be placed on any curb, sidewalk, post, pole, light standard, hydrant, bridge, tree or other surface located on public property, and shall not be located within, over or across any public right-of-way or public parkway including street median islands, except as may otherwise be authorized by this chapter. These restrictions do not apply to signs by a public agency that identify public facilities; such signs shall be subject to the zone district in which the facility is located. Any such sign hereby prohibited constitutes a nuisance, and shall not become a legal nonconforming sign.
B. Signs shall not be permitted near the intersection of any street, pedestrian crosswalks, alley or any vehicle access in such a manner as to obstruct free and clear vision of motor vehicle operators, or at any location where by reason of its position, shape, illumination or color, it may interfere with or be confused with any authorized sign, signal or device, or which makes use of a work, symbol, phrase illumination, shape or color in such a manner as to interfere with, mislead or confuse traffic. Any such sign constitutes a nuisance and shall not become a legal nonconforming sign.
C. Permanent freestanding signs, except monument and directional signs, shall be prohibited in the following areas:
1. The Truxtun Avenue corridor between the west right-of way line of State Highway 99 and the east right-of-way line of Coffee Road, a width of five hundred feet from the right-of-way of Truxtun Avenue or between the north right-of-way line of the Cross Valley Canal and the south right-of-way line of the Carrier Canal/Santa Fe Railroad, whichever distance is greater;
2. Along or within one thousand feet of the right-of-way of State Highway 178 east of Oswell Street, commencing at a point five hundred feet east of the centerline of Oswell Street;
3. Along or within one thousand feet of the right-of-way of Alfred Harrell Highway;
4. Along or within one thousand feet of the right-of-way of Stockdale Highway west of the Arvin-Edison canal;
5. Along or within one thousand feet of the right-of-way of Panorama Drive;
6. Along or within one thousand feet of the right-of-way of the Westside Parkway from State Highway 99 to its western terminus.
A map delineating these corridors prohibiting freestanding signs is shown at the end of this chapter. (Ord. 4729 § 3, 2013; Ord. 4489 § 3, 2008; Ord. 3870 § 3, 1998; Ord. 3586 § 2, 1994)