Business Retention and Development Committee Agenda and Packet 2019 04 01

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Section 1: General Provisions 1.3 APPLICABILITY. These regulations shall apply to the display, construction, erection, alteration, use, maintenance, and location of all signs within the City. 1. Signs may be erected, altered and maintained only for, and be a permitted use in, the district in which the signs are located; shall be located on the same lot as the permitted uses to which they relate, except for sandwich board signs as permitted in Section 5 and shall be clearly incidental, customary and commonly associated with the operation of the permitted use. 2. If any provision of these regulations conflicts with any other adopted City ordinance or regulation that regulates signs, the more restrictive standards shall apply, provided, however, to the extent an approved, unexpired and currently effective Planned Unit Development under Louisville Municipal Code Chapter 17.28 includes specific sign allowances and/or restrictions that directly conflict with these regulations, such allowances and restrictions shall apply to the extent of the conflict. 3. Design guidelines identified within this manual replace the design standards for signs contained in the Design Handbook for Downtown Louisville, the Downtown Louisville Sign Manual, the City of Louisville Commercial Development Design Standards and Guidelines, the City of Louisville Industrial Development Design Standards and Guidelines, the City of Louisville Mixed Use Development Design Standards and Guidelines, and Chapter 17.24 of the Louisville Municipal Code (LMC). 4. The City recognizes other regulations pertaining to signage, specifically the State of Colorado, Department of Highways, "Rules and Regulations Pertaining to Outdoor Advertising," effective January 1, 1984, as may be amended. Where any provision of these regulations address the same subject matter as other regulations, the more restrictive regulation shall apply. 5. Nothing in these regulations shall be construed as a defense to a violation of applicable state or federal law. 6. All signs displayed, constructed, erected or altered after the effective date of these regulations, as adopted on ', 2019, shall be in conformance with the provisions of these regulations. All signs that are existing at the time of the adoption of these regulations shall not be altered or enlarged without being brought into conformance with these regulations. City of Louisville Sign Code 15