§ 17.01.1110. Noncommercial signs and messages.

A.

Noncommercial signs, including political signs, shall be allowed under any circumstance in which a commercial sign is allowed, pursuant to the same rules and regulations as are applicable to any commercial sign, and as additionally allowed pursuant to this chapter.

B.

Subject to a property owner's consent, a noncommercial message of any type may be substituted for any duly permitted or allowed commercial message or any duly permitted or allowed noncommercial message, providing that the sign structure or mounting device is legal, without consideration of message content. Such substitution of message may be made without any additional approval or permitting. This provision prevails over any more specific provision to the contrary within this chapter. The purpose of this provision is to prevent any inadvertent favoring of commercial speech over noncommercial speech, or favoring of any particular noncommercial message over any other noncommercial message. This provision does not create a right to increase the total amount of signage on a parcel or land use, nor does it affect the requirement that a sign structure or mounting device be properly permitted.

(Ord. No. 1121, § 5, 8-17-10)