Fort Walton Beach Council agenda — 10-14-03 regular Council agenda — reading text

parameters established in the Master Signage Plan. 8. 04. 01 Amended Master Signage Plan: If any amended Master Signage Plan is filed for a property on which existing signs are located, it shall include a schedule for bringing ithin three ( 3) years, all signs not conforming to the proposed - into conformance v.- amended plan or to the requirements qfthisordinance in effect on the date of submission of the amended Master Signage Plan. 8. 05. 00Signs Exempt from Permitting: The following signs are exempt from the permitting process required by this code: 1. - A.IJ.y sign required to be maintained o-r posted by law or governmental order, rule or regulation; 2. Public warning signs which indicate the dangers associated with trespassing, swimming, or similar hazards; 3. Incidental signs and any signs not exceeding one ( 1) square foot in area and bearing only property numbers, post office numbers, names of occupants of or other identifications of not having commercial connotations; premises premises, 4. Real estate signs which are securely constructed and erected on the site listed for sale, rent, or lease and do not exceed eight ( 8) square feet in size. The sign shall be removed when the property is no longer for sale, rent, or lease; . with. 5.Flags and insignia of any government except when displayed in connection commercial promotions; Okaloosa County 10 of 15 Land Development Code-Amended ..---. 9/ 10/ 02  6. Integral decorative or architectural features of buildings except letters, trademarks, and moving light's, and 7. Signs directing and guiding traffic and parking, bilt bearing no advertising matter, and not exceeding four (4) square feet in size. site directional signs for Off-:- churches, schools and other not for profit organizations shall not exceed six( 6) . square feet in size. . . . . 8. Nonnal servicing of previously pennitted sign structures, including a change of copy for billboards and a panel change in structures designed to allow changeable copy. 8. 06. 00 Prohibited Signs: It shall be unlawful to erect any sign not authorized or exempted ITom this code. The following signs are expressly prohibited: 1. Signs which are in violation of the building codes adopted by the county; . 0_- ._ p .__ .__ .... 2. Any portion of a sign, including its surface supports, closer than ten ( 10) feet to the right- of-way line ( property line) of any public street or the side or rear of the property lines, excluding signs for subdivisions and planned developments defined in Section 8. 04. 00, which may be located in the median where the entrance street is divided as approved by the County Public Works Department; 3. Abandoned signs, 4. Vehicles not used for operating purposes and parked on any parcel solely for advertising purposes, and 5. Signs, commonly referred to as snipe signs, made of any material whatsoever and attached in any way to a utility pole, tree, fence post, stake, stick or any other object located or situated on public property, except as otherwise expressly allowed by, or exempted ITom this code. 6. Wind signs 7. Any descripticm or representation, in whatever form, of nudity, sexual conduct, or sexual excitement, when it is patently offensive to contemporary standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable sexual material for min~rs, and taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. 8. Any sign which emits audible sound, vapor, smoke, or gaseous matter, n_ Okaloosa County" 11 of 15 n . __.. Lan!i Development_Code. Amended 9/ 10/ 02 n.  from view 9. Any sign which obstructs, conceals, hides or otherwise obscures any official traffic or government-sign, signal or device, is erected or maintained so- as to obstruct any fire fighting equipment, window, door, or opening used as a means of ingress or -egress for fire escape purposes including any opening required for hazard, or detriment to proper lighting and ventilation, or constitutes a traffic traffic safety by reason of its siZe-, location, movement, contem., coloring; or method ofillumiriatio~ or distracting -the vision of dliversor pedestrians. Signs located upon, within, or otherwise encroaching upon County public or 10. Coinmissioners right- of-way, except as may be pennitted by the Board of County and those erected by a governmental agency or required to be erected by a governmental agency. 11. Neon type Sign5 except where pennitted within all commercial and industrial districts. 8. 07. H .shalLbeJheapplicanfs. n~sponsibi1ity CQJnpU;l.IJ.c:e:___ to. S!.lb: uit. tQ Jb_e__~_ n_____-__'___ :.- -..--- 00.._ documentation in the fonn of sit~ plans, drawn to - Department of Growth Management scale, indicating the location of all proposed signage as well as existir:g signage, both freestanding and wall mounted, and detailed drawings of the sign( s) to be permitted prior two ( 2) - to obtaining a permit for the proposed sign( s). The applicant shall sublit of the_plans and blueprints or ink drawings, certified by a Florida Registered Engineer, or the ground for builc.." specifications and method of.construction and attachment to the 1g all pole signs and all projecting signs; and any ground SIgn over trurty-hvo ( 32) squa. re feet. this 8. 07.01Existing Nonconfonning Signs: Existip.g signs expressly piohibited by code and not conforming to its provisions shall be regarded as orming signs. nonco::.: The following signs and sign structures shall be removeq or made to conform to this Code within ninety ( 90) days :lTom the effective date thereof: - 1. Signs made of paper; cloth, or other nondurable materials. 2. No permits shall be issued for repair or replacement ofthes.e existing non- conforming signs. continued and shall be Subject to the following limitations, a nonconforming sign may be maintained in good condition as required by the Ordinance, but shall not be: 1. Structurally or mechanically extended or altered to further the nonconformity, exists imminent danger to except in cases where it has been determined that there the public safety. However, existing nonconforming signs may be structurally 12 of IS Land Pment Code Amended. --- - - . u Okaloosa County Dev6..."' 2l.!O/ O~--,-----..--- __.  ith existing extended or altered to reduce the nonconfonnity or to comply v.- regulations. .. 50) 2. Repaired or rebuilt when destroyed or damaged to the extent of fifty ( percent or more of its re.placement value,. except in conformity \v1th this Ordinance. 3. A nonconformir: ig permari~nt on .;site sign or off-site sign shall not be replaced ofletters~ by another nonconfonmng sign except that substitution or interchange materials on nonconfonning poster panels, and painted boards, or dismountable established by this signs shall be permitted through the period of nonconfonnity code. 4. Continued in use when any land use to which the sign pertains has ceased ~ or a . period ofihirty (30) consecutive days, or has otherwise changed. 5. N oncoirlbrming status shall not be afforded to any