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023 <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING <br />THE LEE COUNTY UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE <br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners for Lee County, North Carolina that <br />the Unified Development Ordinance be, and it hereby is, amended as follows: <br />Section 1. That Article 11 Sign Regulations, Section 11.9 Outdoor Advertising (Billboard) Signs, <br />be amended and rewritten as follows: <br />11.9.1 STANDARDS FOR THE CITY OF SANFORD AND THE TOWN OF <br />BROADWAY. <br />Outdoor Advertising (billboard) signs are prohibited within the City of Sanford and the Town of <br />Broadway. <br />11.9.1.1 City of Sanford Billboards Modernization. Nonconforming pre-existing off -premises <br />outdoor advertising signs which existed as of July 1, 2016, can be modernized as follows, <br />provided they also meet the Outdoor Advertising Control Act: <br />a. Replace multipole with monopole; <br />b. Change wooden supports to metal; <br />c. 50 feet or less in height; <br />d. 300 square feet maximum sign face; <br />e. Electronic digital displays; <br />f. Same number of sign faces; 1 face per side; <br />g. Stacked signs may only be replaced with one level of digital face; <br />and, provided the sign is located in the same physical location of the pre-existing nonconforming <br />sign. Same location means in the footprint of, with the leading edge set back the same distance <br />from the right of way of the highway. <br />No relocation of signs are allowed under the guise of modernization. <br />11.9.1.2 Permits. A sign permit is required to modernize a pre-existing nonconforming off premise <br />outdoor advertising sign. <br />11.9.1.3 Digital signs. Upon the issuance of a sign permit, as specified in this section, owners of <br />qualified pre-existing signs may replace existing face panels on qualified signs with digital faces <br />as defined below, subject to the following conditions: <br />a. Digital signs shall not change or alternate displays (words, symbols, figures or images) <br />more frequently than once every fifteen (15) seconds, except that digital changeable copy <br />signs may change or alternate displays as frequently as once every eight (8) seconds if. (i) <br />the sign displays public service announcements on a permanent basis once within every <br />sixty (60) second period, and (ii) the sign operator displays as part of the normal advertising <br />rotation public emergency messages hereinafter defined until such time as such message is <br />no longer reasonably necessary. "Public emergency messages" shall mean: Amber Alert <br />