ORD 053 ORDINANCE NO. 5 3
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
LA QUINTA, ADOPTING AS AN URGENCY MEASURE, CERTAIN
· REGULATIONS PROHIBITING OUTDOOR ADVERTISING DISPLAYS,
OUTDOOR ADVERTISING STRDCTURES AND OUTDOOR ADVERTISING
SIGNS WHICH MAY BE IN CONFLICT WITH A CONTEMPLATED
ZONING PROPOSAL, SAID REGULATIONS TO BE IN EFFECT ON
AN INTERIM STUDY BASIS PURSUE TO GOVERNMENT CODE
SECTION 65858.
The city council of the City of La Quinta does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Frcm and after the effective date of this Ordinance, and for the
period during which this Ordinance remains in effect, and notwithstanding any
other ordinance, resolution or regulation of the City to the contrary, no officer,
employee or department administering City business shall accept or process any
application for, nor shall any person erect or construct any outdoor advertising
display or outdoor advertising structure or outdoor advertising sign as each of
the above is defined herein.
SECTION 2. DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this ordinance, the following words
or phrases shall have the following definitions.
(a) "Outdoor Advertising Display" means advertising structures
and signs used for outdoor advertising purposes, not including
on-site advertising signs as hereinafter defined.
(b ) "Outdoor Advertising Structure" means a structure of any kind
or character erected or maintained for outdoor advertising
purposes, upon which any poster, bill, printing, painting or
other advertisement of any kind whatsoever may be placed,
including statuary, for outdoor advertising purposes.
(c ) "Outdoor ~]vertising Sign" means any card, cloth, paper, metal
painted, plastic or wooden sign of any character placed for
outdoor advertising purposes, on or to the ground or any tree,
wall, bush, rock, fence, building, structure or thing, ~ither
privately or publicly owned, other than an advertising structure.
(d) The words "Outdoor ~vertising Structure" and "Outdoor Advertising
Sign" as defined in subsections (b) and (c) do not include:
(1)Official notices issued by any court or public body
or officer;
(2) Notices posted by any public officer in performance.
of a public duty or by any person in giving legal
notice;
(3) Directional, warning or information structures
required by or authorized by law or by Federal,
State or County authority; including signs necessary
for the operation and safety of public utility uses.
(4) A structure erected near a city or county boundary,
which contains the name of such city or county and the
names of, or any other information regarding, civic,
fraternal or religious organizations located therein.
SECTION 3. URGENCY. This Ordinance is adopted as an urgency measure
pursuant to the authority of Section 65858 of the Government Code of the State
of California, for the in~nediate preservation and protection of the public
safety, health and welfare, and shall take effect in~ediately upon its adoption
and passage by at least a four-fifths vote of the City Council. The City Council
finds and determines that there is a current threat to the public health., safety
and welfare in that the City of La Quinta has recently been incorporated and because
large unsightly off-site signs can create visual blight contrary to the public
interest, it is necessary to restrict certain signs until a systematic review and
cc~prehensive analysis of signing regulations, particularly those related to outdoor
advertising and related off-site signs, can be completed. It is contemplated that
from such studies, which are soon to be conducted by the City Council and the
Planning Department, there will emerge a new zoning proposal regulating off-site
signs for the City, and during the interim period while this can be accomplished,
it is essential that the controls imposed by this Ordinance be maintained, so that
uses which would otherwise be established and developed during the interim period
will not thereafter be in conflict with the contemplated zoning proposal and
development control proposal as aforesaid.
SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE PERIOD OF ORDINANCE. This Ordinance shall remain in
effect for a forty-five day period pursuant to Section 65858 of the Government
Code of the State of California, unless sooner repealed or otherwise modified,
and subject to any extension of the effective period duly enacted pursuant to and
in accordance with said Section 65858.
SECTION 5. POSTING. The City Clerk shall within 15 days after the passage
of this Ordinance, cause it to be posted in at least the three public places
designated by resolution of the City Council; shall certify to the adoption and
posting of this Ordinance; and shall cause this Ordinance and its certification,
together with proof of posting, to be entered in the book of ordinances of this
City.
The foregoing Ordinance was introduced and adopted at a meeting of the
City Council held May 1, 1984, by the following vote:
AYES: Council Members Baier, Cox, Henderson, Wolff and Mayor Allen.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) Ss
CITY OF LA QUINTA )
I, FRANK M. USHER, City Clerk of the City of La Quinta, do
hereby certify the foregoing to be a full, true and correct
copy of Ordinance No. 53 which was adopted at a
regular meeting held on the 1st day of May
1984, not being less than five days following date of
introduction. I further certify that the foregoing
ordinance was posted in three (3) places within the City of
La Quinta.
city of La Quinta, California