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ORDINANCE NO. 1742
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BURLINGAME AMENDING TITLE 22 TO
UPDATE THE SIGN REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE BAYFRONT AREA OF
THE C4 DISTRICT
The CITY COUNCIL of the CITY OF BURLINGAME does hereby ordain as
� follows:
Section 1. There is a need to revise the sign code regulations for the Shoreline and
Anza Subareas of the Bayfront planning area to bring the Sign Code up-to-date for the
current C-4 zoning district and to be responsive to implementation of the 2004 Bayfront
Specific Plan. These changes will allow future signage in these two Bayfront subareas to
match the existing signage approved in these areas between 1981 and 2004. During this
period, sign exceptions for size and amount of signage were regularly allowed. Recent
revisions to the City's Sign Code prohibit variances to the total amount (square footage) of
signage on a site. The current Sign Code adopted in 1978 would allow substantially less
signage than currently exists because of past exceptions granted to square footage . This
means that property owners in this area today are allowed substantially less signage on their
properties than their neighbors. The changes to the Sign Code are founded in the amounts
and types of signage granted in the Shoreline and Anza Subareas between 1981 and 2004.
These new regulations will allow the property owner or tenant to decide how to distribute
the signage around the site in most instances, rather than seeking Planning Commission
review for particular variances. These changes will continue to emphasize the safety and
aesthetic concerns of the community in an area of the City that has been both a social and
economic resource because of its orderly development.
Section 2. Anew Section 22.20.070 is added to read as follows:
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22.20.070 Permitted signage in the Shoreline and Anza Subareas of the Bayfront zoned C-4.
Instead of the regulations contained in the other sections of this chapter, the
following signage regulations apply only in the Shoreline and Anza subareas as defined in
the Bayfront Specific Plan adopted by the council:
(a) Except as prohibited in this section, any type of sign permitted by this title is
permitted so long as it conforms to this section.
(b) Signs at a height of no more than twenty four (24) feet.
(1) The maximum total square footage of signage at a height of twenty-four (24) feet
or less on any parcel shall be based on the length of the primary parcel frontage. Each parcel
is entitled to one hundred square feet of such signage, and for each additional foot of primary
parcel frontage more than 100 feet, one additional square foot of such signage shall be
allowed, except that no more than a total of 350 square feet of signage at a height of
twenty-four (24) feet or less shall be allowed on any parcel. As an example:
Primary Parcel Frontage
MiSignag
Leneth (feet)
100 or less
150
250
350 or more
axmum e Area
above 24 feet in hei hg t (square feet)
100
150
250
350
In addition, up to six (6) signs not to exceed three (3) feet in height and no larger than three
(3) square feet shall be exempt fr
om the total square footage calculation.
(2) Subject to safety regulations, signage at a height of twenty-four (24) feet or less
may be placed anywhere on a parcel or building.
(3) No single sign may be larger than two hundred (200) square feet.
(4) There is no limitation on the number of signs that may be placed at a height of
twenty-four (24) feet or less.
(c) Signs at a height above twenty four (24) feet.
(1) The only signs allowed above aheight oftwenty
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(2) A maximum of 300 square feet of signage at a height above twenty-four (24) feet
is allowed on each building frontage.
(3) No more than three (3) signs above a height of twenty-four feet are allowed on
any building frontage.
(4) No single sign shall be larger than 250 square feet.
(5) For purposes of this subsection, no building shall be considered to have more
than four (4) building frontages regardless of the building's design or parcel.
(d) Roof signs and pole signs are prohibited.
(e) All forms of illumination are permitted.
Section 3. Section 22.48.040 is amended to read as follows:
22.48.040 Off -premises advertising.
Signs carrying the advertising of a person, product, or service other than that of the
occupant of the parcel on which the sign is placed are prohibited; signs are permitted only to
the actual occupant of the parcel upon which the sign is displayed during the period of
occupan
cy.
Section 4. Anew Section 22.04.165 is added to read as follows:
22.04.165 Height.
"Height" as
Section 5. Section 22.04.500 is amended to read as follows:
22.04.500 Wall sign.
all
sign" is any sign, which is placed flat against the exterior wall of any building
or any sign, motif, symbol, figure, word, words, or object painted directly on the surface of
the exterior wall of an
y building.
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applied to
a sign for purposes
of this
title means the distance between the
very topmost point
of the sign
and the established
grade
directly below the sign.
Section 5. Section 22.04.500 is amended to read as follows:
22.04.500 Wall sign.
all
sign" is any sign, which is placed flat against the exterior wall of any building
or any sign, motif, symbol, figure, word, words, or object painted directly on the surface of
the exterior wall of an
y building.
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Section 6. Section 22.04.460 is deleted.
Section 7. This ordinance shall be published as required by law.
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Mayor
I, ANN T. MUSSO, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame, do hereby certify that the
foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 16'
day of August, 2004, and adopted thereafter at a regular meeting of the City Council held on
the 7`b day of September, 2004, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: BAYLOCK, COFFEY, GALLIGAN, NAGEL, O'MAHONY
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
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