ORDINANCE - Amending UDO Article 11 Sign Regulations 6-18-18

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11.6.1 The following signs are prohibited within the City of Sanford and Town of Broadway, including their extraterritorial jurisdictions, and Lee County: • Banners, except when used as an otherwise permissible temporary sign • Beacons • Flashing or Intermittent Signs • Signs with indirect illumination, such as floodlights, erected in such a manner as to cause glare that impairs driver vision on streets or roadways or pilot vision approaching or departing Sanford/Lee County Regional Airport runways, or that causes a nuisance to adjoining property • Temporary off -Premise signs • Permanent off -Premise signs except to the extent expressly allowed by this Article • Pavement markings for purposes other than traffic control • Pennants • Portable signs, except portable signs may be used as temporary signs within the Central Business District in the City of Sanford to the extent such temporary signs are otherwise allowed by this Article • Roof signs • Signs attached to or painted on utility poles, telephone poles, trees, parking meters, bridges and overpasses, rocks, or other signs • Signs containing or consisting of pennants, ribbons, streamers, festoon lighting, balloons (or inflatable signs), or spinners • Signs placed within any required Sight Triangle, except approved traffic control signage • Signs on public property or in any public right of way, except for: (i) signs placed by or on behalf of a duly constituted governmental body with authority to do so or (ii) signs permitted by N.C.G.S. §136- 32(b) or by Subsection 11.10.4 of this Article • Signs that contain copy obscene to the general public as defined by N.C.G.S. § 14- 190.1 • Signs that imitate traffic control devices or that might reasonably be confused for traffic control devices • Signs placed on private property without consent from the property's owner or from someone else with authority to consent to the sign 4