Agenda Item No.
CITY OF YUCAIPA
AGENDA REPORT
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Ana V. Sauseda, Director of General Services/City Clerk FOR: City Council Meeting of July 24, 2023
SUBJECT: Second Reading of Ordinance No. 401, an Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Yucaipa, California, Amending Development Code Section 87.0725 (Sign Registration) of Division 7 (Sign Regulations) of the Yucaipa Development Code Related to Sign Registration
RECOMMENDATION:
That the City Council approve the second reading of Ordinance No. 401, an Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Yucaipa, California, Amending Development Code Section 87.0725 (Sign Registration) of Division 7 (Sign Regulations) of the Yucaipa Development Code Related to Sign Registration.
Attachment:
1. Ordinance No. 401
Approved By:
ATTACHMENT 1
ORDINANCE NO.401
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF YUCAIPA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING DEVELOPMENT CODE SECTION 87.0725
(SIGN REGISTRATION) OF DIVISION 7 (SIGN REGULATIONS) OF THE
YUCAIPA DEVELOPMENT CODE RELATED TO SIGN REGISTRATION
WHEREAS, on March 14, 1994, the City Council of the City of Yucaipa (the "City Council") adopted a comprehensive Development Code that included zoning standards and development review procedures for the City of Yucaipa (the "City") to use to evaluate a variety of development and land use proposals, and
WHEREAS, Development Code Amendment No. 401 is consistent with the goals and policies of the City of Yucaipa General Plan, and
WHEREAS, the City has a responsibility to assure adherence to the General Plan in meeting the needs and desires of its residents and the community in general, and WHEREAS, the City Council has received and affirmed the Planning Commission's recommendation for approval and considered these proposed amendments to the Development Code at a duly noticed public hearing on June 26th 2023, and recommended that the City Council adopt the proposed amendments, and
WHEREAS, the City Council has evaluated the potential environmental impacts that could result from the adoption of these amendments to the Development Code, and has found that the proposed amendments are categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3)) of the CEQA Guidelines, and WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed and considered the information in the Agenda Report, as well as public testimony presented at the hearing.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF YUCAIPA, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Findings, Purpose and Intent.
A. This Ordinance is adopted by the City Council pursuant to the City's police powers to protect the health, safety, and general welfare of the public.
B. The City Council finds that the overall use and development of land should be designed for the protection of the public health, safety and welfare; that it is important to ensure that the establishment of all land uses conform to a plan of logical and orderly development of the land, and that present and future land uses be compatible with surrounding land uses; and that incompatible land uses would be aesthetically displeasing, economically detrimental, and harmful to the public health, safety and welfare.
Section 2. Section 87.0725 (General Provisions.) of Division 7 (Sign Regulations) of the Development Code of the Yucaipa Development Code is amended to read as follows:
"87.0725 General Provisions.
(r) The following information shall be clearly legible and in a conspicuous place on each sign. (1) Every accessory sign shall display the name of the maker and date of construction. (2) Every primary sign shall display the name of the sign owner, operator, and builder, and the State Outdoor Advertising Permit number, where required.
Section 3. Section 87.0730 (Accessory Signs.) of Division 7 (Sign Regulations) of the Development Code of the Yucaipa Development Code is amended to read as follows:
"87.0730 Accessory Signs.
Accessory advertising signs and structures shall be regulated by the provisions of this chapter and the provisions of the applicable land use district. The following accessory signs are permitted in addition to those specified within a land use district. (a) Accessory Residential Signs
The following signs are permitted in any land use district that allows residential land uses. (1) Accessory residential signs are signs which give notice of the name and/or address of residential land uses on the same lot and/or the name of a resident thereof. Except as otherwise provided, accessory residential signs shall not exceed a total of six square feet in area per residential dwelling and shall not exceed six feet in height. (2) Accessory residential signs for multi -family structures shall not exceed 20 square feet in area.
(3) Accessory residential signs shall also include signs which identify a residential development by name or give similar notice to identify a residential area or neighborhood.
Each residential area or development shall be limited to a maximum of two permanent signs per principal entrance to the residential development. The maximum total sign area shall be 100 square feet per development, and all such individual signs shall not exceed a maximum height of six feet. Such signs shall not advertise the sales of lots or homes. These signs are permitted in any land use district which allows residential land uses.
(b) Nonresidential Accessory Signs in Residential Land Use Districts When a nonresidential use is allowed within a residential land use district, said use may be accompanied by one unlighted, single- or double-faced sign not to exceed six feet in height or 6 square feet in area.
(c) Accessory Commercial/Industrial Complex Signs
(1) A shopping center occupant located on the perimeter of a shopping center with street frontage may have one monument sign, subject to a Land Use Compliance Review or in conjunction with a related Project that is subject to architectural review and approval by Planning Commission, in addition to a wall, roof, or projecting sign. The additional sign shall not exceed 50 square feet in area.
(2) A shopping center occupant which backs onto or is located adjacent to a major arterial or a major or secondary highway may have an additional wall sign on the rear of the building, subject to a Land Use Compliance Review or in conjunction with a related Project that is subject to architectural review and approval by Planning Commission. (3) A shopping center complex abutting two street frontages of at least 150 feet each may have one additional monument sign, subject to a Land Use Compliance Review or in conjunction with a related Project that is subject to architectural review and approval by Planning Commission. However, the total cumulative square footage of all monument signs shall not exceed 100 square feet.
(4) Freestanding or monument signs shall be permitted, subject to a Land Use Compliance Review or in conjunction with a related Project that is subject to architectural review and approval by Planning Commission, and shall be mounted in a landscaped planter at least two times the area of the sign. The planter shall contain a permanent operational irrigation system.
(5) One roof or one projecting sign shall be permitted, subject to a Land Use Compliance Review or in conjunction with a related Project that is subject to architectural review and approval by Planning Commission, when the Building Official finds that an allowed accessory freestanding sign does not provide sufficient opportunity for adequate viewing. (d) Accessory Civic Signs
Accessory civic signs are signs which give notice of the name or service, or other function or operation, of a publicly owned land use type on the same lot, or which give notice of the address or conditions of use of a parking area or other facility serving such activity. Accessory civic signs are permitted in any land use district subject to the following limitations. (1) In those districts where accessory business signs are not permitted, accessory civic signs with a maximum area of 32 square feet and a maximum height of 12 feet are permitted, subject to a Land Use Compliance Review by the Building Official or when in conjunction with a
related Project that is subject to architectural review and approval by Planning Commission.
(2) In those districts where accessory business signs are permitted, the maximum height and area for accessory civic signs shall be the same as that permitted for accessory business signs.
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Section 4. Section 87.0725 (Sign Registration.) of Division 7 (Sign Regulations) of the Development Code of the Yucaipa Development Code is amended to read as follows:
87.0750 Sign Registration.
(a) All existing and new permanent signs, not to include temporary signs, established in conjunction with a commercial, industrial, private institutional, or commercial -agricultural business use shall be subject to a biefx-i-al one-time sign registration requirement. A sign registr-ation decal will be issued by the Community Development Depaftment on applicable signs he permit , issued,
Section 5. Severability.
If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance or any part thereof is for any reason held to be unlawful, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of this Ordinance or any part thereof. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed each section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase be declared unlawful.
Section 6. Certification.
The City Clerk of the City of Yucaipa shall certify the passage and adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published or posted in the manner required by law.
Section 7. Effective Date.
This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after the date of its adoption by the City Council.
Section 8. Publication and Posting.
The City Clerk is hereby directed to cause the following summary of this Ordinance to be published by two (2) insertions in the Yucaipa News Mirror, a newspaper of general circulation that is printed, published, and circulated in the City of Yucaipa, and hereby designated for that purpose by said Council of the City of Yucaipa: "Ordinance No. 401 amending Section 87.0725 (Sign Registration) of Division 7 (Sign Regulations) of the Yucaipa Development Code related to sign registration and permit review processes"
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED on this 24th day of July, 2023.
ATTEST:
Justin Beaver, Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM
Ana V. Sauseda, CMC Steven Graham, City Attorney
Director of General Services/City Clerk