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BK -00028 PG -0204 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE LEE COUNTY UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners for Lee County, North Carolina that the Unified Development Ordinance be, and it hereby is, amended as follows: Section 1. That Article 11 Sign Regulations, Section 11.6 Prohibited Signs, be rewritten to permit Sandwich Board Signs as follows: 11.6 PROHIBITED SIGNS 11.6.1 The following signs are prohibited within the City of Sanford and Town of Broadway, including their extraterritorial jurisdictions and Lee County: • All signs that advertise an activity or business no longer conducted. • Banners, except as provided by § 11.10 (Temporary Banners). • Beacons, except as provided for in Table 11-4. • Flashing Signs, except as provided for in Table 11-4. • Indirect illumination, such as floodlights, erected in such a manner as to cause glare that impairs driver vision on streets or roadways, pilot vision approaching or departing Sanford/Lee County Regional Airport runways, or that causes a nuisance to adjoining property. • Off -Premise signs except as specifically permitted herein. • Pavement markings for purposes other than traffic control. • Pennants. • Portable signs except those that have met the requirements of 11. 7.19 Sandwich Board Signs. • Roof signs. • Signs attached to or painted on utility poles, telephone poles, trees, parking meters, bridges and overpasses, rocks, other signs, benches and refuse container, except that the latter two may contain a logotype. • Signs containing or consisting of pennants, ribbons, streamers, festoon lighting, balloons (or inflatable signs), or spinners. • Signs placed within any required Sight Distance, except approved traffic control signage. • Signs placed within or extending into the right -of- way of streets and roads maintained by the City of Sanford, Town of Broadway, or the State, except those signs erected by a duly constituted government body or those that have met the requirements of IL 7.19 Sandwich Board Signs. • Signs that contain language and/or pictures obscene to the general public in accordance with NCGS § 14-190.1. • Signs that do not conform to this Article. • Signs that obstruct fire escapes, windows, doors or other openings used as means of egress or as required legal ventilation. • Signs which approximate official highway signs, warning signs or regulatory devices. • Windblown devices.