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No review is required for temporary signs or sign structures. All temporary signs and sign structures shall conform to the following provisions:

(1) No temporary sign or sign structure shall be placed in any roadway, required parking space or driveway, nor shall any sign or sign structure that fully or partially rises higher than twenty-four inches above the centerline grades of intersecting streets and/or railroads be placed in the clear view triangle of any roadway, driveway or curb cut as established in Section 10.08.030.

(2) No temporary sign or sign structure may be placed in, on or above any city-owned or city-operated property, structure, building or facility including but not limited to utility poles, utility boxes, fences, street signs, traffic signs, sidewalks, trees and live vegetation (but not including grass, vegetation bed locations without live vegetation and bare ground located in, on or upon a city-owned right-of-way, which are separately addressed by Section 10.38.080(b)), unless the owner or owners obtain in advance a special event permit, temporary use permit or other permission from the city.

(3) Temporary signs and sign structures may be placed on property that is residentially zoned in accordance with the requirements of this chapter and the following:

(A) Only one temporary window sign is allowed per residential unit and it shall not exceed four square feet in total sign area.

(B) Freestanding signs, including post-mounted, stake-mounted and portable signs, are allowed as follows:

(i) In single-family residential zoning districts, temporary freestanding signs that are post-mounted on the ground shall not exceed four square feet in total sign area and five linear feet in height, and temporary freestanding signs that are stake-mounted in the ground or portable shall not exceed three feet in linear height.

(ii) In multifamily residential zoning districts, temporary freestanding signs that are post-mounted in the ground shall not exceed six square feet in total sign area and five feet in linear height above ground level, and temporary freestanding signs that are stake-mounted in the ground or portable shall not exceed three feet in linear height above ground level.

(4) Temporary signs and sign structures may be placed on property that is nonresidentially zoned in accordance with the requirements of this chapter and the following:

(A) The total sign area of any window sign shall not exceed fifty percent of the window area.

(B) Freestanding signs, including those that are post-mounted in the ground, shall not exceed four square feet of total sign area and five feet in linear height above ground level, and temporary signs that are stake-mounted in the ground or portable shall not exceed three feet in linear height above ground level.

(5) Surface-mounted signs shall not exceed thirty square feet of total sign area and must be flatly affixed to walls or to on-site fences that face the abutting street or face inward to the subject site.

(6) Temporary signs on a property of more than two surface acres, either residentially zoned or nonresidentially zoned, may be of any type and cumulatively shall not exceed sixty-four square feet of total sign area and individually shall not exceed eight feet of lineal height above ground level. No other or additional temporary signs shall be displayed on such property.

(7) In all circumstances, temporary signs and sign structures shall be promptly removed after the event that they are related to has occurred or ended. (Ord. 2134, § 1, 2021.)