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ORDINANCE 2008-428 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 90, ARTICLE IV, SECTION 90-265 SIGNS THE CITY OF HUGO ORDAINS: Section 1. The City Council of the City of Hugo does hereby amend Chapter 90, Article IV, Section 90- 1, amend the following: SIGNS: It is unlawful for any person to construct, erect, install, or maintain any sign in the City of Hugo, except in conformance with this ordinance. Sec. 90-265 SIGNS. It is unlawful for any person to construct, erect, install, or maintain any sign in the City of Hugo, except in conformance with this ordinance. (a) Purpose/Intent. The intent of this ordinance is to create the framework for a comprehensive and balanced system of sign regulations to facilitate an easy and pleasant communication between people and their environment and to avoid the visual clutter that is potentially harmful to traffic and pedestrian safety, property values, business opportunities and community appearance. With these purposes in mind, it is the intent of this ordinance to authorize signs which are (1) compatible with their surroundings, (2) appropriate to the activity that displays them, (3) expressive of the identity of the individual activities and the community as a whole, (4) legible in the circumstances in which they are seen and, (5) encourage quality design and construction. It is not the purpose or intent of this sign ordinance to regulate the message displayed on any sign; nor is it the purpose or intent of this article to regulate any building design or any display not defined as a sign, or any sign which cannot be viewed from outside a building. (b) General Standards. a) Sign area will be calculated as the area of a single rectangle containing the entire sign message and does not include the sign supports and brackets. b) All signs shall be of sound structural quality, be maintained in good repair and have a clean and neat appearance. Land adjacent to such sign shall be free from debris, weeds and trash. If signs are not being maintained as described and the Community Development Director deems them a public hazard or nuisance, such sign shall be ordered to be repaired or removed. c) The owner of any sign which is otherwise allowed by this sign ordinance may substitute non-commercial copy in lieu of any other commercial or non-commercial copy. This substitution of copy may be made without any additional approval or permitting. The purpose of this provision is to prevent any inadvertent favoring of commercial speech over non-commercial speech, or favoring of any particular non- commercial message over any other non-commercial message. This provision prevails over any more specific provision to the contrary.