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City Council Meeting 05-24-11 Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 2359 (CCS)
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE SECTIONS 9.52.030, 9.52.135,
9.52.140, 9.52.150, AND 9.52.160 RELATING TO SIGN AREA CALCULATION,
PERMITTED PROJECTING SIGNS, ATTRACTIONS OR READER BOARDS,
TEMPORARY SIGNS IN THE CM DISTRICT AND TOTAL SIGN AREA AUTHORIZED
IN THE RVC DISTRICT
WHEREAS, the City's Sign Code was originally adopted in 1985 and as detailed
in the administrative record and in Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.52.020,
advances a variety of purposes and interests, including but not limited to, protecting the
health, safety, property, and welfare of the public; providing a neat, clean, orderly and
attractive appearance of the community, improving the effectiveness of signs, providing
for safe construction, location, erection, and maintenance of signs, preventing the
proliferation of signs and sign clutter, and minimizing adverse visual safety factors to
travelers of public streets and sidewalks; and
WHEREAS, in developing this ordinance and amendments thereto, the City
Council has been mindful of legal principles relating to regulating signs and has adopted
these regulations to ensure that the Sign Code continues to comply with evolving
constitutional principles, and
WHEREAS, the proposed revision to the methodology for calculating the area of
signs would be more reflective of the actual area of the commercial content, thereby
allowing businesses to install signs with copy or logos that extend above or below the
primary body of the sign without requiring the sign to be reduced in size to
accommodate the extremities of the sign and would be easily understood, applied, and
enforced; and
WHEREAS, projecting signs- are recognized as a pedestrian oriented form of
signage but currently are only permitted in the Bayside Commercial District when less
than 4'/z feet in size; and
WHEREAS, allowing similarly sized projecting signs throughout the City would be
consistent with the City's significant efforts to promote pedestrian orientation and would
provide businesses with more opportunities to promote their identity; and
WHEREAS, the Sign Code allows commercial and industrial districts a maximum
amount of sign area based on the linear dimension of the building or store street
frontage whereas the maximum sign area within all multiple residential districts is limited
to twenty-five square feet; ahd
WHEREAS, while the RVC (Residential Visitor Commercial) District is
considered a residential district, it allows for a variety of commercial uses and is located
primarily along Ocean Avenue between California Avenue and Pico Boulevard and on
the Santa Monica Pier and Ocean Front Walk; and
WHEREAS, the proposed amendment would allow businesses with the RVC
District to have the same amount of signage as their counterparts in the neighboring
BSC (Bayside Commercial) District; and
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WHEREAS, attraction or reader boards are signs that have changeable copy;
and
WHEREAS, the Sign Code allows such signage so long as it does not exceed
twenty percent of the total allowable sign area; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance would additionally allow small attraction or reader
boards in the CM, BSc, and C2 zoning districts under specified circumstances without
being included in the total sign area, thereby providing a sign type that reflects the
dynamic nature of businesses and the service and products they provide while slightly
increasing the amount of signage a business can have,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.52.030 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Section 9.52.030. Definitions.
The following words and phrases are used in the
Santa Monica Sign Code shall have the following meanings:
(a) Abandoned Sign. A sign which no longer
advertises or identifies a legal business establishment,
product or activity.
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(b) Alteration. Any change in copy, color, size or
shape, which changes appearance of a sign, or a change in
position, location, construction or supporting structure of a
sign, except that a copy change on an attraction or reader
board is not an alteration.
(c) Animated Sign. Any sign which has any visible
moving part, flashing or osculating lights, visible mechanical
movement of any description, or other apparent visible
movement achieved by any means.
(d) Area of Sign. The surface area of a sign
calculated by enclosing the extreme limits of all lettering,
background, emblem, logo, representation, or other display
within a single continuous perimeter composed of squares or
rectangles with no more than eight lines drawn at right
angles. On signs with more than one face, that face or those
faces visible from any one direction at one time will be
counted at one hundred percent of visible area; other faces
will be counted at fifty percent of their area in calculating
total sign area.
(e) Attraction or Reader Board. Any sign having
changeable copy for the purpose of advertising events,
sales, services or products provided on the site.
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(f) Awning. A shelter extending from the exterior.
wall of a building and composed of nonrigid materials except
for the supporting framework.
(g) Awning Sign. Any sign painted on or attached
to or supported by an awning.
(h) Balloon Sign. A lighter-than-air gas-filled
balloon tethered in a fixed location.
(i) Billboard or Poster Panel. An off-premises
sign.
(j) Building Frontage. The linear dimensions of a
building which faces upon a public street, projected along
the street property line. Where a building faces two or more
streets, the frontage containing the principal street address
shall be designated as the building frontage.
(k) Building Identification Sign.' Any sign
containing the name or address of a building and may
include hours of operation and emergency information, such
sign being located on the same site as the structure.
(I) Changeable Copy Sign. An attraction or reader
board.
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(m) Commercial Sign. Any sign with wording, logo,
or other representation that, directly or indirectly, .names,
advertises or calls attention to a business, product, service,
profession, commodity, event, person, institution, or other
commercial activity or otherwise contains commercial
speech.
(n) Commercial speech. Any message proposing a
commercial transaction or related to the economic interests
of the speaker and its audience.
(o) Emitting. Sign. A sign which emits sound,
odor, or visible matter such as smoke or steam.
(p) Free-Standing Sign.. Any sign which is
permanently affixed in or upon the ground, supported by one
or more structural members, with air space between the
ground and the sign face.
(q) Grade. The level of the site at the property line
located at the closest distance to the sign.
(r) Ground Sign.. Any sign which is neither
attached to nor part of a structure and which is permanently
affixed in or upon the ground with no air space between the
ground and the sign face.
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(s) High Rise Sign. Any sign located on a building
four or more stories in height that is between the top of the
parapet or high point of the building, exclusive of penthouse
structures, and the horizontal line not more than fifteen feet
below the top of the parapet or high point of the building on
the side of the building to which the sign is affixed.
(t) Illegal Sign. Any sign placed without proper
approval or permits as required by the Santa Monica
Municipal Code at the time of sign placement. Illegal sign
shall also mean any sign placed contrary to the terms or time
limits of any permit and any nonconforming sign which has
not been brought into compliance with the provisions of
Sections 9.52.210 and 9.52.220 of this Chapter.
(u) Illuminated Sign. Any sign for which an artificial
source of light is used in order to make readable the sign's
message, including internally and externally lighted signs
and reflectorized, glowing or radiating signs.
(v) Light Bulb String. A display consisting of a row
or rows of bare light bulbs.
(w) Logo, Logogram, or Logotype. An emblem,
letter, character, pictograph, trademark, or symbol used to
represent the firm, organization, entity, or product.
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(x) Marquee. A permanent rooflike shelter extending
from part or all of a building face and constructed of some
durable material which may or may not project over a public
right-of-way.
(y) Marquee Sign. Any sign painted on or attached
to or supported by a marquee.
(z) Monument Sign. A ground sign having a
horizontal dimension greater than its vertical dimension.
(aa) Mural. A picture on an exterior surface of a
structure.
(bb) Neon Signs. A sign with tubing that is internally
illuminated by neon or other electrically charged gas.
(cc) Noncommercial sign. Any sign which is not a.
commercial sign as defined herein.
(dd) Noncommercial speech. Any message which
is not commercial speech as defined herein.
(ee) Nonconforming Sign. A sign which was validly
installed under laws or ordinances in effect at the time of its
installation, but which is in conflict with the provisions of the
Santa Monica Sign Code.
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(ff) Off-Premises Sign. A commercial sign which
displays any message directing attentiori to a business,
product, service, profession, commodity, activity, event,
person, institution, or other commercial message which is
generally conducted, sold, manufactured, produced, offered
or occurs elsewhere than on the premises where such sign
is located.
(gg) On-Premises Sign. A commercial sign that is
other than an off-premises sign.
(hh) Permanent Sign. Any sign that is a legally
placed sign which is intended to be and is so constructed as
to be of a lasting and enduring condition, remaining
unchanged in character, condition (beyond normal wear) and
position and in a permanent manner affixed to the ground,
wall, or building.
(ii) Pole or Post Sign. Afree-standing sign.
Qj) Portable Sign. Any movable sign not
permanently attached to the ground or a building.
(kk) Projecting Sign. A sign which projects from
and is supported by a wall or parapet of a building with the
display surface of the sign in a plane perpendicular to or
approximately perpendicular to the wall.
(II) Public Sign. A sign,. on public property open
to the public which is erected or maintained by a public
agency, or which serves to fulfill a permit condition imposed
by a public agency such as a sign erected to preserve the
safe and efficient control of traffic and parking or to provide
notification of essential governmental services.
(mm) Pylon Sign. A ground sign having a vertical
dimension greater than its horizontal dimension.
(nn) Revolving or Rotating Sign. An animated
sign.
(oo) Roof Sign. Any sign erected upon a roof,
parapet, or roofmounted equipment structure and extending
above a roof, parapet, or roofmounted equipment structure.
of a building or structure.
(pp) Sign. Any name, figure, character, outline,
display, announcement, or device, or structure supporting
the same, or any other device of similar nature designed to
attract attention outdoors, and shall include all parts,
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portions, units, and materials composing the same, together
with the frame, background, and supports or anchoring
thereof.
(qq) Sign Cans. A sign with a metal can and an
internally illuminated plastic face. A change in the face of a
sign can is considered to be a change in copy and not
subject to review if it affects only the message of the sign,
and does not change the color of background or letters, size
or location of letters, or otherwise alter the general
appearance of the sign. Painted or panel signs shall be
reviewed similarly to sign cans.
(rr) Sign Face. An exterior display surface of a
sign including non-structural trim exclusive of the supporting
structure.
(ss) Sign Program. A coordinated program of all.
signs, including exempt and temporary signs for a business,
or businesses if applicable, located on a development site.
The sign program shall include, but not limited to, indications
of the locations, dimensions, colors, letter styles and .sign
types of all signs to be installed on a site.
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(tt) Site. All the contiguous ground area legally
assembled into one development location.
(uu) Special Event Sign. A sign authorized through
a community events permit issued pursuant to Santa Monica
Municipal Code Chapter 4.68
(vv) Statue. A three-dimensional representation,
including a sculpture. A statue that is related to the
advertisement of any product or service or the identification
of any business is a sign.
(ww) Super Graphic. A painted design which covers
all or a major portion of a wall, building or structure.
(xx) Temporary Sign. Any sign, not permanently
attached to the ground or a structure, which is installed or
placed for a limited. duration.
(yy) Total Sign Area. The sum of the areas of all
externally viewable signs on a site; excluding the area of any
signs exempt from Architectural Review Board approval
under Sections 9.52.125, 9.52.130, and 9.52.135.
(zz) Upper Level Sign. Any sign mounted on a
building that is placed in whole or in part between thirty
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inches above the second floor floor line and the top of a
parapet or roof line, but does not include a high rise sign.
(aaa) Vehicle Sign. Any sign permanently or
temporarily attached to or placed on a vehicle or trailer.
(bbb) Wall Sign. Any sign attached to or painted on
the wall of a building or structure in a plane parallel or
approximately parallel to the plane of said wall.
(ccc) Window Sign. Any sign viewable through
and/or affixed in any manner to a window or exterior glass
door such that it is viewable from the exterior, including signs
located inside a building but visible primarily from the outside
of the building.
SECTION 2. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.52.135 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
9.52.135 Temporary sign regulations.
The following signs are exempt from the permit
requirements of this Code. The use of these signs does not
affect the amount or type of signage otherwise allowed by
this Chapter. All. signs listed in this Section must be in
conformance with all other applicable requirements of this
Chapter and the City's Municipal Code:
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(a) Basic Requirements Governing Temporary
Signs.
(1) Illumination. No temporary sign shall be
internally or externally illuminated.
(2) Location.
(A) Except as provided by this Section, no
temporary sign shall extend into, on or over the public right
of way of any street, alley, or other public property.
(B) No temporary sign shall extend into the
hazardous visual obstruction zone as established by Santa
Monica Municipal Code Section 9.04.10.02:090.
(3) Maintenance. Temporary signs shall be kept
neat, clean and in good repair. Signs which are faded, torn,
damaged or otherwise unsightly or in a state of disrepair
shall be immediately repaired or removed.
(4) Placement. No- temporary sign shall be
attached to trees, shrubbery, utility poles, or traffic control
signs or devices. They shall not obstruct or obscure primary
signs on adjacent premises.
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(5) No temporary sign shall be erected or
maintained which, by reason of its size, location or
construction, constitutes a hazard to the public or impairs
accessibility.
(6) Collection and Retrieval of Temporary
Signs Placed in the Public Right-of-Way.
(A) The City may collect temporary signs placed in
the public right-of-way which are not authorized by this
Chapter.
(B) Each sign collected will be stored for a
minimum of thirty days.
(C) Notice will be mailed or otherwise provided
within three business days of the date of collection to the
owner of each sign if the ownership is reasonably discernible
from the sign or is on file with the City's Community
Maintenance Department.
(D) The owner of a sign may retrieve. a sign
collected by the City within thirty days of the collection date.
The owner must present proof of ownership of the sign and
pay a sign retrieval fee in an amount established by
resolution of the City Council.
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(b) Authorized Temporary Signage in Any
Residential Zone. In any residential zone, temporary
signage shall be allowed for each and every lot without
issuance of a permit and shall not affect the amount of type
of signage otherwise allowed by this Code. This signage
shall not be restricted by content, but usually and
customarily relates to an event. such a real estate sale,
garage sale, home construction or remodeling, etc. Signage
shall be allowed for each lot as follows:
(1) One temporary on-premises sign on property
that is for sale, lease or rental not exceeding six square feet
in total area and not more than six feet in height; plus no
more than three twelve-inch by four-inch riders, plus no more
than one six-inch by eighteen-inch pennant for each twenty
linear feet for street frontage, provided the sign is removed
within fifteen days from the sale, lease or rental of the
property. An additional sign of the same size may be erected
if the property borders a second street and the signs are not
visible simultaneously. On tracts of land of more than two
acres in residential zones the sign area may be increased to
thirty-two square feet. In no case shall the sign or signs be
erected for more than twelve months.
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(2) One temporary on-premises sign on property
that is undergoing construction or remodeling not exceeding
twenty-four square feet each in area and not more than six
feet in height above grade and limited to one sign for each
street frontage provided the sign is removed within seven
days of completion of any construction or remodeling.
(3) One temporary on-premises sign not
exceeding four square feet in area which is erected a
maximum of two times per calendar year for a maximum of
two days each display and which is removed by sunset on
any day it is erected.
(4) Four temporary signs not exceeding six feet in
height placed on private property within five hundred feet of
a property for sale or lease during the hours that the property
is open to the public for viewing
(5) Public signs provided that they are not of the
type prohibited by subsections (a), (b), (c), (i), (j), (k), or (I) of
Section 9.52.150.
(c) Authorized Temporary Signage in Any
Commercial Zone. In any commercial or industrial zone,
temporary signage shall be allowed for each and every lot
without issuance of a permit and shall not affect the amount
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or type of signage otherwise allowed by this Code. This
signage shall not be restricted by content, but is usually and
customarily related to an event such as a real estate sale,
construction or remodeling, etc. The signage shall be
allowed for each lot as follows:
(1) One temporary on-premises sign which is
located on the building that is for sale, lease, or rental, not
exceeding twenty-four square feet each, are not higher than
thirty inches above the second floor lihe, arid which are
limited to one sign for each building, and must be attached to
the building, provided said signs are removed within fifteen
days from the sale, lease or rental of the property. Properties
with a lot width of fifty feet or less shall be limited to sixteen
square feet per site. An additional sign of the same size may
be erected if the property borders a second street and the
signs are not visible simultaneously.
(2) One temporary on-premises sign on property
that is ongoing construction or remodeling not exceeding
twenty-four square feet each in area and not more than six
feet in height above grade and limited to one sign for each
street frontage provided the sign is removed within seven
days of completion of any construction or remodeling.
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(3) One temporary on-premises banner on a
business that is newly opened not exceeding twenty percent
of a business' front building fagade area or one hundred
square feet, which ever is less, not extending above the
second floor floor line, and limited to one sixty-day period.
(4) One temporary on-premises banner on a
business where, due to construction activities, the front
fagade to the building is blocked from the street by
barricades or related construction materials or equipment,
not exceeding twenty percent of a business' front. building
fagade area or one hundred square feet, which ever is less,
not extending above the second floor floor line, and limited to
the time that the front fagade is blocked from the street.
(5) Temporary signs not exceeding sixteen
square feet in area erected at the same time as the
temporary uses allowed by Santa Monica Municipal Code
Part 9.04.20.06, or any successor legislation thereto. The
signage shall be allowed for the same duration as the
temporary use.
(6) Temporary window signs not to exceed twenty
percent of the first floor's total frontage glass area and
limited to two thirty-day periods in any calendar year for each
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site. Temporary window signs shall not extend above the
second floor line.
(7) Public signs provided that they are not of the
type prohibited by subsections (a), (b), (c), (i), Q), (k), or (I) of
Section 9.52.150.
(d) Within the Main Street Commercial Zoning
District, each business shall be allowed one temporary on-
premises sign, if the temporary sign complies with the
following requirements:
(1) The sign shall not be larger than ten (10)
square feet in size.
(2) The sign face shall be no wider than two and a
half (2 ''/2) feet and no taller than four (4) feet and limited on
two sides/faces with a total square footage of sign area not
to exceed twenty (20) square feet.
(3) The sign shall remain portable and shall not be
attached or anchored to any public or private property.
(4) The sign is not of the type prohibited by
subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (i), Q), (k); or (1) of
Section 9.52.150 or by Section 9.52.200.
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(5) The sign shall be removed when the business
is closed.
This subsection (d) shall remain in effect only until
March 31, 2012, and after that date, unless otherwise
extended, shall sunset and have no further force or effect.
(e) Temporary signs are prohibited signs except
as provided by this Section or otherwise exempt pursuant to
Section 9.52.125.
SECTION 3. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.52.140 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
9.52.140 Permitted signs.
When reviewed and approved by the Architectural
Review Board, signs shall be permitted under the following
provisions:
(a) Attraction or Reader Boards. Attraction or
reader boards so long as they do not exceed twenty percent
of total allowable sign area or are otherwise authorized
pursuant to Section 9.52.160(g). Copy must be changed
.periodically during each calendar year;
(b) Awning Signs. Awning signs painted or
printed on the, surface of the awning material;
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(c) Ground Signs. One ground sign for each site
in the commercial and industrial districts. A monument type
sign is permitted so long as it does not exceed six feet in
height above grade. A pylon type sign is permitted as long
as it does not exceed thirty inches in width and does not
exceed sixteen feet in height above grade. The maximum
area of one side of a ground sign, including its base, is forty
square feet;
(d) Light bulb strings.
(e) .Marquee Signs. Marquee signs that do not
extend more than twelve. inches from the surface of the
marquee, nor provide less than eight feet of clearance above
ground level are permitted;
(f) Statues.
(g) Wall Signs. Wall signs so long as the display
surface of the sign does not extend more than twelve inches
from the wall, is parallel with the wall, does not project above
the top of the wall or parapet or more than thirty inches
above the second floor floor line in multistoried buildings,
and does not contain copy or lighting on any surface parallel
with the wall other than the sign face. A wall sign may be
located on the sloping surface of a roof, with no air space
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between the roof and the sign, may not project above the
high point of the roof and may not be more than twelve
inches in depth.
(h) Permanent Window Signs. Permanent
window signs so long as the sign area does not exceed
twenty percent of the first floor's total frontage glass area.
(i) Projecting Signs.. Projecting signs so long as
the sign is no greater than four and one half square feet.
SECTION 4. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.52.150 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
9.52.150 Prohibited signs.
The following signs, and any sign not authorized
by Section 9.52.130 or Section 9.52.140, are prohibited:
(a) Animated signs.
(b) Balloon signs.
(c) Emitting Signs. Emitting signs except that
devices for communicating with customers at drive-in
restaurants, automated bank tellers, and drive-
through banks may use sound communication;
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(d) Free-standing and pole signs.
(e) Miscellaneous Signs and Posters.
Miscellaneous signs and posters tacked, painted, posted or
otherwise affixed on the walls of a building, or on a tree,
pole, fence or other structure, and visible from a public way;
(f) Off-premises signs.
(g) Paper, Cloth or Plastic Streamers and
Bunting. Paper, cloth, or plastic streamers and bunting;
(h) Portable signs, except temporary signs
authorized pursuant to Section 9.52.135;
(i) Roof signs.
Q) Upper level signs.
(k) Vehicle Signs. No person shall park any
vehicle or trailer on a public right-of-way or public properly or
on a private property so as to be visible from a public right-
of-way, which has attached thereto or located thereon any
sign or advertising device for the basic purpose of providing
advertisement of products or directing people to a business
or activity located on the same or nearby property. This
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Section is not intended to apply to standard advertising or
identification practices where such signs or advertising
devices are painted on or permanently attached to a
business or commercial vehicle;
(I) High-rise signs.
SECTION 5. Santa Monica Municipal code Section 9.52.160 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
9.52.160 Total sign area permitted by district.
(a) The total sign area factors set forth in .this
Section govern the aggregate square footage of all
nonexempt signs externally placed or externally visible at a
given site. The factors are related to the building or store
frontage measured along the site street address.
(b) The total operative frontage dimension for
structures located on a street corner site is one and one-half
times the building's address frontage. For such corner
locations, no more than two-thirds of the total allowable sign
area shall be permitted facing on one or the other street.
(c) For all multiple-use buildings in commercially
or industrially zoned districts, the size of signs pertaining to
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each business or use is governed by that portion of the
building frontage occupied by that business or use; the total
sign program is governed by the total building frontage. If in
addition to any entrance from public streets there is a public
entrance from an alley or from a parking lot, additional sign
area of one-half square foot per foot of that building frontage
is allowed on that side of the premises, not to exceed twenty
square feet. If there is no public entrance, signage on that
side is limited to a business identification sign, not to exceed
two square feet.
(d) Notwithstanding the maximum sign area
calculated by use of these factors, no single sign shall
exceed one hundred square feet in area at any location.
(e) Notwithstanding the maximum sign area
calculated by use of these factors, no business in a
commercial or industrial district is required to have signage
of less than twenty-five square feet in area.
(f) The maximum sign area is as follows:
(1) R1/OP1-One Family Residential District.
Applicable exempt signs;
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(2) R2R/OPD-Duplex Residential District.
Applicable exempt signs;
(3) All Multiple Residential Districts except the
RVC District. A maximum of one-fourth square foot of sign
area for each linear foot of building frontage with the total
nonexempt sign area not to exceed twenty-five square feet.
Externally illuminated signs are permitted for the purpose of
building name and address identification;
(4) Hotels in R-4 Multiple Residential District.
A maximum of one square foot of sign area for each linear
foot of building frontage. Internally illuminated signs are
permitted;
(5) All BSC, C3, C3C Commercial Districts,
and the RVC District. For other than street corner locations,
a maximum of one square foot of sign area for each linear
foot of building or store frontage. For street corner locations,
a maximum of one square foot of sign area for each linear
foot of building or store frontage for each street facing
frontage. The provisions of Section ~9.52.160(b) shall not
apply;
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(6) All Other Commercial and Industrial
Districts. A maximum of one square foot of sign area for
each linear foot of building or store frontage;
(7) A-Off-Street Parking Districts. The same
as the sign requirements in the appropriate adjacent
residential district.
(g) In the CM, BSC, and C2 Districts, one
changeable copy sign that does not exceed 1 '/z X 2' affixed
either to the exterior of the building or to a location visible
through a window shall not be included as part of the total
allowable sign area for a business.
SECTION 6. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal Code or
appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance, to the
extent of such inconsistencies and no further, is hereby repealed or modified to
that extent necessary to effect the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 7. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of
this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a
decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby
declares that it would have passed this Ordinance and each and every section,
subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not declared invalid or unconstitutional
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without regard to whether any portion of the ordinance would be subsequently
declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 8. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall attest to the
passage of this Ordinance. The City Clerk shall cause the same to be published
once in the official newspaper within 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance
shall become effective 30 days from its adoption.
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Approved and adopted this 24th day of May, 2011.
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Richard Bloom, Mayor
State of California )
County of Los Angeles ) ss.
City of Santa Monica )
I, Maria M. Stewart, City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Ordinance No. 2359 (CCS) had its introduction on May 10, 2011,
and was adopted at the Santa Monica City Council meeting held on May 24,
2011, by the following vote:
Ayes: Council members: Holbrook, McKeown, O'Connor, Shriver
Mayor Pro Tem Davis, Mayor Bloom
Noes: Council members: None
Absent: Council members: O'Day
A summary of Ordinance No. 2359 (CCS) was duly published pursuant to
California Government Code Section 40806.
ATTEST:
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Maria M. Stewart, City Clerk