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CZLia.t.kg, BLACK HAWK COUNTY RECORDER
CITY OF WATERLOO ATTN: NANCY ECKERT
This Ordinance prepared by Nancy Eckert, City Clerk, 715 Mulberry
Street, Waterloo, Iowa.
ORDINANCE NO. 4521
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY OF WATERLOO
ZONING ORDINANCE NO. 2479 (AMENDED JULY
1999) BY REPEALING SUBSECTION A, OUTDOOR
ADVERTISING SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS, OF SECTION
2A-47, SPECIAL PROVISIONS, OF PART XXIII,
SPECIAL PROVISIONS; AND BY ENACTING IN LIEU
THEREOF A NEW SUBSECTION A, OUTDOOR
ADVERTISING SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS, OF SECTION
2A-47, SPECIAL PROVISIONS, OF PART XXIII,
SPECIAL PROVISIONS .
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WATERLOO,
IOWA:
That Subsection A, Outdoor Advertising Signs And
Billboards, of Section 2A-47, Special Provisions, of Part XXIII,
Special Provisions, of the City of Waterloo Zoning Ordinance No.
2479 (Amended July 1999) is hereby repealed in its entirety;
that a new Subsection A, Outdoor Advertising Signs And
Billboards, of Section 2A-47, Special Provisions, of Part XXIII ,
Special Provisions, of the City of Waterloo Zoning Ordinance No.
2479 (Amended July 1999) is hereby enacted in lieu thereof as
follows :
PART XXIII , SPECIAL PROVISIONS
2A-47 . SPECIAL PROVISIONS .
A. Outdoor Advertising Signs And Billboards .
Outdoor Advertising is a traditional and legitimate advertising
medium involving the lawful use of private property.
Outdoor Advertising should be regulated to provide for safe
structures to be properly located so as to meet uniform standards
for construction and maintenance and to be maintained to conform
to a neat and pleasant community appearance .
In all districts where permitted (C-2 , C-3 , M-1, M-2 , excluding
corridor overlay districts) . Billboards shall have a prime
message area not to exceed 300 square feet . Billboards may
exceed 300 square feet, for unique site characteristics
including, but not limited to, setbacks, surrounding land uses
and structures, spaciousness, and visibility. Such a request
over the 300 sq. ft . limit must follow the procedure by applying
for a special permit from the Board of Adjustment . In no case
shall the Board of Adjustment grant a special permit that
exceeds 672 sq. ft . , and an embellishment, trim and skirting
area not to exceed an additional 150 sq. ft . The maximum
allowable height as measured from natural grade at the base of
the sign to the top of the structure is 48 feet with the minimum
height being 10 feet . The structures shall be a monopole steel
design, with the paint and sign material maintained in a new
condition. All billboard sign structures, including the
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outermost edge of the sign panel, must be setback from the
immediately abutting street right of way line or property line
equal to the setback of the underlying zoning district .
Billboard structures shall not be permitted within 1000 feet of
another billboard structure measured in either direction along
both sides of the street which adjoins the billboard structure,
measured from the base of structure to the base of structure in
a straight line regardless of grade . Furthermore, no billboard
structure shall be permitted closer than 200 feet from a
residential zoning district or from the property boundaries of
any property which has a principal residential use located
thereon, excluding legal non conforming uses, nor closer than
200 feet from the property boundaries of a public park, church,
school , cemetery, hospital, the property boundaries of any
historic district established by state law or local ordinance,
or the property boundaries of any structure listed on the
national register of historic places . In addition, vertical
stacking of separate sign panels on a billboard structure shall
be prohibited. On corner lots no billboard shall be erected
within the triangular area formed by the intersection of the lot
lines and two (2) points each located 100 feet from the
intersection of the lot lines .
This ordinance shall become effective sixty (60) days after
adoption by the City Council .
INTRODUCED: October 22 , 2001
PASSED 1ST CONSIDERATION: October 22, 2001
PASSED 2ND CONSIDERATION: October 22 , 2001
PASSED 3RD CONSIDERATION: October 22 , 2001
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Waterloo, Iowa, on the 22nd day of October, 2001 and approved by
the Mayor on the 24th day of October, 2001 .
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John R. 'oaf , Mayor
ATTEST:
Nancy Ecker City Clerk
CERTIFICATE
I, Nancy Eckert, City Clerk of the City of Waterloo, Iowa, do
hereby certify that the preceding is a true and complete copy of
Ordinance No. 4521 as passed and adopted by the Council of the
City of Waterloo, Iowa, on the 22nd day of October, 2001 .
Witness my hand and seal of office this 24th day of October,
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