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AN ORDINANCE AME~NDING ORDINANCE NS-3, Tt]E ZONING ORDINANCE
OF THE CITY OF SARATOGA, BY AMENDING ARTICLE 3 IN RELATION
TO MINIMUM SITE AREA OF MINIMUM ACCESS STREET LOTS, AND
AMENDING ARTICLE. 10 RELATING TO FREE-STANDING SIGNS.
The City Council of the City of Saratoga does hereby ordain as
follows:
Section .1: The last paragraph of Section 3.5 of Ordinance NS-3,
the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Saratoga, ~.Thich
section is entitled "Site Area, Frontage, Width, and Depth", is
hereby amended to readies follows:
The minimum site area for a corridor lot in an R-I-iO,00e,
R-1-12,500, or R-l-15,000 zoning district and the minimu~ site
area for any lot in the above zoning districts which has its sole
access to a public street by means of a minimum access street,
which minimum access street is established or created after the
effective date of this ordinance, shall be 20,000 square feet,
exclusive of the area of the corridor or minimum access street.
S.ect~on 2..!. Sub-section (n) is hereby a~ded to Section 10.2 of
Ordinance NS-3, the Zoning Ordinance, relating
signs, and which section is captioned "General Provisions",
to read as foll~.Ts:
Other than in an A or R District, each identification sign
shall be affixed to the Building or structure the use
which is being advertised or identified, and shall not be free-
standing ~ means of any pole or ~ther separate sign supporting
structure; except that a free~tanding master sign may be permitted
to advertise or identify a shopping center complex and the-enter-
prises composing the same, othem¢ise in accord with the {~6iafions
of the district in which the same is located.=..
All signs which on the effective date of the
th~s provision become non-conforming by reason of thhfr:non-
compliance with said regulation, shall be made to conform or be
dismantled and removed on or beofre the expiration 'of 1O years
from the date of erection or the effective date of this amendment
which ever is sooner except that no sign shall, under provision
of this amendment, be required to be made to conform or to be
dismantled and removed within 3 years after the effective date of
this amendment.
S~ction 3: Section 10.5 of Article 10 of Ordinance NS-3, the
Zoning Ordinance, is hereby amended to read as follows:
No sign, outdoor advertising structure or display of any
character shall be permitted in a C district .except the
following:
a. Identification signs, pertaining to a use conducted on
the site having not more than one-half square foot in
area for each foot of width of the front elevation of
the building and side elevation on the street side of
-1-.
a corner lot, or h~ving not more than one-fourth
square foot in area .for each foot of street fron~
rage of the site. In all C districts, ~he~ aggre~
gate area of all signs identifying any one use shall
not exceed 40 square feet.
In addition, direction signs for off-street parking
and loading, each not more than 6 square feet in
area, shall be permitted in all C districts.
b. In alldistricts where a free-standing master sign~ is
permitted, the area of said master sign shall be in-
cluded in the maximum aggregate sign area allowed for
a shopping center compleX. Said maximum aggregate
sign area shall be computed by allotting not more than
one-half square foot in sign area for each foot of
width of the front elevation of the shopping center
complex building and side elevation of the building
on the street side of a corner lot, or allowing not
more than one-fourth square foot in sign area for
each foot of frantage of the site.
A free-standing master sign identifying or advertising
a shopping center complex shall not exceed 40 square
feet.
Setbacks for a free-sta~di~g%mast~r sign sh&ll not be
less than the setbacks required for structures for that
particular zoning districe.
c. In addition to an identif~cation ~ign, a bulletin =board
not more than 20 square feetin area on the site of a church.
d. An identification sign not more thanG/.4square feet in
area on the site of a molti-familyjdwelling, motel, hotel
or lodging house.
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e. A non-illuminated sign not more than 6 square feet;in
area pertaining to the s~te, lease, rental or display
of a structure or land.
Section 4: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
ordinance is for any reason held by a court of competent jur-
isdiction to be invalid, such decisioh shall not ~ffect the
Validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City
Council of the City of Saratoga hereby declares that it would
have passed this ~rdinance and each section, subsection, sen-
tence, cIause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that
any one orbmore sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or
phrases be held invalid or unconstitutional.
Section 5: This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect
30 days after the date of its passage and adoption.
The above and foregoing, after public hearing held thereon
by the Planning Commission of the City of Saratoga, ms
thereafter introduced and a public hearing held thereon by
the City Council thereof, and it w~s thereafter passed and
adopted...
this 19th day of February , 1969 by the follow-
ing vote:
AYES: Councilmen Tyler, Robbins, Smith, Sanders, D~er
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
The above Lqnd forego n0 Is ~t tree 8f~t~ f3~fl'e~t
copy ~f {'*':,:,,mr,:: ~jJ~ _ which has bee~
pubiCshed ac;cor~{~g to law.
Deputy City Clerk ~ DatO ~