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AN ORDINANCE
Continuing a Moratorium
on Pole Signs
WHEREAS, numerous signs of diverse and varied type exist in the
City of Evanston; and
WHEREAS, it is the goal of the City of Evanston to establish
workable standards for the size, location and type of signs to be erected
and maintained within the City; and
WHEREAS, the City Sign Ordinance has been amended by Ordinance '
33-0-70 in 1970 and Ordinance 85-0-82 in 1982; and
WHEREAS, the Planning and Development Committee of the City of
Evanston has begun an examination of the standards utilized to regulate the
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location and size of signs within the City; and
WHEREAS; the Planning & Development Committee has on August 17,
1984 and May 20, 1985 considered the impact of various signs on the neighbor-
hoods and citizens of the City; and
WHEREAS, the City's Director of Planning, Director of Building and
Zoning, and Director of Housing and Property Services Administration,4,nd the
Zoning Planner have met with representatives of Design Evanston, the
i Evanston Plan Commission, and the Evanston Preservation Commission to develop
amendments to the existing sign ordinance; and
WHEREAS, Title 4, Chapter 12, of the City Code of the City of
Evanston, 1979, as amended, has proven inadequate as a standard for
regulation of signs within the City; and
,.WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Evanston has authorized an
outside consultant to analyze the impact of the existing sign ordinance on
the City and to recommend amendments to the ordinance consistent with the
needs of the City and the City's General Plan; and
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WHEREAS, the City Council on September 23, 1985 adopted an
Ordinance declaring a six month moratorium on pole signs in order that a
study be completed to determine proper regulations for the construction
and/or erection of pole signs; and
WHEREAS, said study has not been completed; and
WHEREAS, the consultant is to consider among other factors (a)
maximum sign size requirements, (b) prohibition of billboards, (c) a pro-
hibition of pole signs, (d) the number of signs per establishment, and
(e) the impact of regulation on the First Amendment to the United States
Constitution; and
WHEREAS, the construction of certain pole signs has been unsuccess=
fully regulated by state law and City of Evanston ordinances; and
WHEREAS, the construction and erection of certain pole signs is
costly and once erected, for the most part, irreversible; and
WHEREAS, such construction and erection of pole signs may not be
• within the limitation or protection of any possible new sign regulation;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
SECTION 1: That pursuant to the home rule powers of the City of
Evanston a moratorium be and is hereby imposed on all
construction and/or erection of all pole signs. This moratorium is to remain
in effect until the City Council of the City of'Evanston enacts an ordinance
to regulate the construction and/or erection of said pole signs, and the
ordinance takes effect, but in no event more than one hundred eighty (180)
days following the effective date of this ordinance. For the purposes of
this ordinance, a pole sign shall be defined as follows:
POLE SIGN Pole mounted signs shall include any signs, supported
by steel poles, steel beams or other.suitable material
approved by the Director of Building and Zoning
and shall include only signs erected on the property
of the location or place of business which is identified
by the copy or reading matter appearing on the sign
face.
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SECTION 2: The City Manager shall be responsible for the
enforcement of this ordinance.
SECTION 3: Any person, firm or corporation attempting to construct
. and/or erect a pole sign shall be fined, not to exceed
Five Hundred and no/100ths Dollars ($500.00). Each day any violation of
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this ordinance shall continue, shall constitute a separate offense.
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SECTION 4: If any provision of this ordinance or the application
thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid,
the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this
ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or
application.
SECTION 5: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
and after its passage, approval and publication in the
manner provided by law.and until an Evanston ordinance regulating pole signs .
takes effect or one hundred eighty (180) days fromthe effective date of this i
ordinance, whichever comes first.
Introduced: 9'V."'X/d 1986
Adopted: 9,-Z%a4-e 1936 -
ATTEST:
City Clerk
App -)ved as to form:
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dorporation CyVunsel \
Approved:
Mayor
1986