Ordinance - 4181
ORDINANCE NO.418
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS 801 and 1407.OF ORDINANCE NO.325
OF THE CITY.OF WEST COVINA, KNOWN AS THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING
ORDINANCE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF TIE CITY OF WEST COVINA-DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1, That Section 801 of Ordinance No.325 of the
City of West Covina, entitled "AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO.
i 147 BEING AN ORDINANCE 'ESTABLISHING ZONES IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA
AND THEREIN REGULATING THE USE OF LAND, HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS, AREA
OF LOTS AND PARCELS AND YARD SPACES; PROVIDING FOR'THE ADOPTION OF,
MAPS SHOWING THE BOUNDARIES OF SAID ZONES; DEFINING THE TERMS USED
IN THIS ORDINANCE; PROVIDING FOR ITS ADJUSTMENT, AMENDMENT AND
ENFORCEMENT; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION; REPEALING ORDINANCES
OR PORTIONS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH", adopted June 28,
1954, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
"Section 801: LIMITATIONS ON PERMITTED USES IN C-1 ZONE.
'Every use permitted in a C-1 zone.shall be subject to
the following conditions and limitations:
(1) All uses shall be conducted wholly within a
building except such uses as drive-in restaurants and
similar enterprises customarily conducted in the open,
filling stations, electrical transformer substations,
on -sale of nursery stock (no propagation or production -
growing of stock).
• (2) Products made incident to a permitted use shall
be sold only at retail on the premises.
(3) Permitted signs shall be subject to the
.following conditions:
L (a) Any exterior signs displayed shall be attached
to the building and shall pertain only to the use con-
ducted within the building. Where C-1 properties are
used for conforming service station uses, standard type
pole or banjo signs may be permitted in approved locations.
(b) An identification sign may be placed on the
rear of the building when an entrance therein opens onto
a public parking area.
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(c) Signs pertaining only to the rental,
sale or lease of the premises upon which they are
displayed, may be double faced, but shall"not exceed
eighty (80) square feet in area, per face.
(d) No sign displayed in zone C-1 shall be
larger than eighty (80) square feet of aggregate
surface area.
(e) This section shall not apply when property
classif ied.as C-1 comprizes part of the frontage on
a block on one side of a street between intersecting
streets and the remainder of the frontage in the same
block is classified for C-1 purposes.
(4) Not more than five (5) persons may be employed
in such manufacturing, processing and treatment of
products.
(5) Storage shall be limited to accessory storage
of commodities sold at retail on the premises. it
SECTION 2. That Section 1407 of said Ordinance No.325 be
and the same is hereby amended so asto read as follows:
" Section 1407: OUTDOOR ADVERTISING DISPLAYS OR OUTDOOR
ADVERTISING STRUCTURES.
A..Notwithstanding any provisions of this ordinance,
no outdoor advertising structures or outdoor advertising
display shall be placed in the hereinafter described
area of the City of West Covina.
(1) The :areas extending five hundred (500) feet
on either side of the center line of any highway desig-
nated as a State or County Freeway.
B. This Section shall have no application to,.�-the
following:
(1) Signs used exclusively-
. (a) for the display of official notices issued
by any court, public body or official, or for the posting
• of notices by any public officer in the performance of a
public duty, or by any person giving legal notice;
(b) for the directional warning or informational
purposes of a public or semi-public nature, directed and
maintained by an official body.
(2) A single sign not exceeding an aggregate size
of eighty (80) square feet of surface area, which is used
exclusively to advertise the ownership, sale or:lease of
the property upon which such sign is placed; nor shall
this Section have any application to signs advertising a
business conducted, or services rendered, or goods
produced or sold upon such premises, or any other lawful
activity conducted on such premises, provided -
(a) illuminated signs shall not be so located
that any green, yellow or red light thereon will ,.materially
or practically tend to interfere with approaching drivers
readily distinguishing them from.a traffic signal.
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(b) the erection and maintenance of all signs
shall be in full accordance with the requirements of
the Building Code, (Ordinance No.252).
(c) all signs constructed or maintained within
zones._R-A, R-1, R-21 R-39 R-P and C-1 shall not rotate
or otherwise move, nor shall they be so designed and
operated as to simulate motion. This shall not apply
when property classified as C-1 comprizes part of the
frontage on a block on one side of a street between
intersecting streets and the remainder of the frontage
in .the same block is classified for C-1 purposes. it
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this Ordinance, and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days
from the passage thereof, shall cause the same to be published once
in the West Covina Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation
published and circulated in the City of West Covina, and thirty (30)
days from and after the final passage thereof said Ordinance shall
take effect and be in for
ATTEST:
City Clerk
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of West Covina,
held on the 22nd day of August 1955, by the affirmative vote of at
least three Councilmen, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen JAMES W. KAY JAY D. BROWN J. CAL SPERLINE JOE BURST, MAYOR
NOES: Al -Or AI
ABSENT : BERT C. VAN HORN
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sLJ City Clerk of the City Of West Covina
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