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ORDINANCE NO. 7771
® AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 25'/2 "STANDARD SIGN CODE,"
SECTION 25%2 -10 "OFF- PREMISE SIGN PROVISIONS," SUBSECTIONS (C), (D),
(E), (F), AND (G) OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF
BAYTOWN, TEXAS; PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE; CONTAINING A
SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS:
Section 1: That Chapter 25%2 "Standard Sign Code," Section 25'/2 -10 "Off- Premise Sign
Provisions," Subsections (C), (D), (E), (F), and (G) of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Baytown,
Texas, are hereby amended to read as follows:
(C) General Location. To the extent off - premise signs are allowed within the city, the
following provisions shall apply:
(1) All off - premise signs shall be located within eight hundred (800) feet of a
commercial or industrial activity.
(2) No off - premise sign shall be located in a primarily residential area.
(3) No off - premise sign shall be erected, constructed or established such that the
face of the structure may be viewed from a scenic or historical right -of -way
district.
(4) All off - premise signs shall be subject to the following spacing requirements
from other off - premise signs on the same side of the public right -of -way:
(a) No off - premise sign having a face area in excess of three hundred (300)
square feet shall be located within four hundred (400) feet of another off -
premise sign.
(b) No off - premise sign having a face area bf from one hundred (100) to
three hundred (300) square feet shall be located within two hundred
(200) feet of another off - premise sign.
(c) No off - premise sign having a face area up to one hundred (100) feet shall
be located within one hundred (100) feet of another off - premise sign.
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Spacing, of Off-Premise Signs
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Distance; to Other Signs {In :Feet) .
Face Area. .........
of Sign
Area
Aiea
Area
:300 .900:
100= 300
Less Than::
Feet
Feet
100 Feet .
In excess of
400
400
400
300 square
feet
100- -300
400
200
200
square feet
Less than
400
200
100
100 square
feet
All signs on
500
500
500
interstate
and
freeway
primary
system
(5) Each double- faced, back -to -back, or V -type sign shall be considered as single
off - premise signs for spacing purposes. The largest face on a double- faced,
back -to -back, or V -type sign will govern spacing requirements.
(6) In computing the distance between off - premise signs, all measurements shall
be made parallel to the edge of the street and on the same side of the street.
In measuring the distance from back -to -back and V -type signs, the
measurements shall be made from the street end of the nearest sign on the
back -to -back or V -type structure.
(7) No portable sign may be erected or placed as an off - premise sign.
(D) Location on Property. All off - premise signs and sign structures shall be within the
deeded front building line or, if no such line exists, within the property line, but in
no event closer than twenty (20) feet to the curbline of any public street.
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(E) Construction of Certain Off-Premise Sign Structures. All off - premise sign structures
constructed, established or erected after May 1, 1975, which are not located on the
interstate and freeway primary system shall be supported by columns spaced a
minimum of eight (8) feet apart.
(F) Visibility Triangle. Within the triangular areas shown below or within forty-five (45)
feet of an intersection, no part of the face of an off - premise sign shall be lower than
a height of eight (8) feet above the grade level of the nearest street.
(G) Off-Premise Sign Lists. Each person engaging in the off - premise sign business shall
file with the sign administrator a certified list of all off - premise sign structures owned
by him as of January 1 of each year. This list shall be filed on or before January 1 of
each year and shall describe the location of an off - premise sign, the owner shall give
the street address of the sign location and the facing direction, or the owner shall first
reference the sign structure to the street from which the sign is to be primarily
viewed, then the side of such street, then the distance in feet to the nearest
intersecting street on the same side of the primary street as the sign structure is
located, then reference is to be made to the direction the sign faces. For example:
"303 X Street, west facing on X Street, north line, 120 feet east of Y Street, west
facing (303 X Street NL 120'E Y Street WF)."
Section 2: All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the terms of this
ordinance are hereby repealed; provided, however, that such repeal shall be only to the extent of such
inconsistency and in all other respects this ordinance shall be cumulative of other ordinances
regulating and governing the subject matter covered by this ordinance.
Section 3: If any provision, section, exception, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause
or phrase of this ordinance or the application of same to any person or the set of circumstances, shall
for any reason be held unconstitutional, void or invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the validity
of the remaining provisions of this ordinance or their application to other persons or sets of
circumstances and to this end all provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable.
Section 4: This ordinance shall take effect immediately from and after its passage by the
City Council of the City of Baytown.
INTRODUCED, READ, and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the City Council of the City
of Baytown, this the 8th day of August, 1996.
xz& (. ev'�
PETE C. ALFARO M r
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ATTEST:
EILEEN P. HALL, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
KW,ACIO RAMIREZ', SR., it Attorney
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