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Chapter 916: Signs Page 916-2 2. Maintain, enhance and improve the aesthetic environment of the City by preventing visual clutter that is harmful to the appearance of the community. 3. Improve the visual appearance of the City while providing for effective means of communication, consistent with constitutional guarantees and the City's goals of public safety and aesthetics. 4. Provide for fair and consistent enforcement of the sign regulations set forth herein under the zoning authority of the City. C. Effect. A sign may be erected, mounted, displayed or maintained in the City if it is in conformance with the provisions of these regulations. The effect of this chapter, as more specifically set forth herein, is to: 1. Allow a wide variety of sign types in commercial zones, and a more limited variety of signs in other zones, subject to the standards set forth in this chapter. 2. Allow certain small, unobtrusive signs incidental to the principal use of a site in all zones when in compliance with the requirements of this chapter or when required by federal, state or local law. 3. Prohibit signs whose location, size, type, illumination or other physical characteristics negatively affect the environment and where the communication can be accomplished by means having a lesser impact on the environment and the public health, safety and welfare. 4. Provide for the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter. 916.020 Definitions A. Sign means any structure, fixture, placard, announcement, declaration, device, demonstration, or insignia used for direction, information, identification, or to advertise or promote any business, product, goods, activity, services, ideas, or interests. A sign shall not be deemed to be include any transparent window cling(s); architectural embellishment(s) of a building not intended to communicate information; murals; any sign or structure that is not visible from an adjacent street, property line or building on an adjacent property. 1. Advertising Sign. A billboard, poster panel, painted bulletin board, illuminated neon sign, or other communication device which is used to advertise products, goods, and/or services which are not exclusively related to the premise on which the sign is located. 2. Area Identification Sign. A freestanding sign which identifies the name of a single or two-family residential subdivision; a residential planned unit development; multiple residential complex consisting of three (3) or more structures; an office or business structure containing three (3) or more independent operations; a single business consisting of three (3) or more separate structures existing on individual platted lots or as a planned unit development; or any integrated combination of the above. Said sign shall be limited only to the identification of an area or complex