[Added 11-24-2008 by Ord. No. 791]
No outdoor display sign or display structure
shall be erected over any pavement or sidewalk area by attachment
to, suspension from or support on a building or structure until a
permit for the same has been issued by the Mayor and Common Council,
for which permit there shall be paid a fee as provided in the General
Fee Ordinance. Each such application shall be in writing, and the applicant
shall state therein the location, legend, size and material of the
proposed sign, the method of attaching the sign to the building or
structure and the height of the sign from the pavement or sidewalk.
No permit shall be granted for the erection of a sign that would extend
over the pavement or sidewalk more than 12 inches from any building
or structure, nor shall any permit be granted for the erection of
a sign without its height, length, legend and design also being approved
by the Mayor and Common Council.
[Amended 12-6-2007 by Ord. No. 773; 11-24-2008 by Ord. No. 791]
No awning shall be erected over any pavement
or sidewalk until a permit to do so has been issued by the Public
Works Director for which permit there shall be a fee as provided in
the General Fee Ordinance. Each application for such a permit shall be in writing,
and the applicant shall state therein the location, Size and material
of the proposed awning, the method of attaching the awning to the
building or structure and the height of the awning from the pavement
or sidewalk. No permit shall be granted for the erection of an awning
that would be within seven feet of a pavement or sidewalk, nor shall
any permit be granted for the erection of a permanent type awning.
All porches, porticoes or other elevated structures
one or more stories high over any pavement or sidewalk of the City
in front of any building or lot and which are supported by posts or
pillars stationed inside of eight feet clear from the front of the
houses or lots on any street or which may have a roof or cover less
than eight feet clear from the sidewalk or pavement and all doorsteps,
stoops or porticoes in front of any dwelling or other houses in the
City fronting on any street thereof, which extend more than four feet
over the pavements or sidewalks of any street or which do not leave
at least five feet of such sidewalks for free and unobstructed passage
in front thereof, be and the same are hereby declared to be public
nuisances; and the Planning and Public Works Director, when so directed
by the legislative body in any case, shall give notice to the owners
of any such porches, porticoes or elevated structures aforesaid or
of such doorsteps, stoops or porticoes declared in this section to
be nuisances or to the tenant of the premises to which they are attached
and belong for the removal of such posts, pillars, porches, porticoes,
doorsteps or other obstructions above mentioned or the modification
thereof in such manner as the legislative body may direct so as to
abate or remove the nuisance within 20 days from the delivery of such
notice; and if the same are not removed or modified in accordance
with such notice at the end of such 20 days, the owner of such building
or premises to which the nuisance is attached or who owns such nuisance
shall be subject to prosecution for violation of this section, and
such nuisance shall be subject to abatement by the Planning and Public
Works Director at the cost of the owner thereof and in case of his
refusal to pay such costs shall constitute a lien upon the property
in favor of the City to be collected in the same manner as city taxes
are collected.