§ 23.42.020. Purpose.

It is the purpose of this chapter to safeguard the life, health and welfare of the citizens of the Olympia UGA by regulating and controlling the design, quality of materials, construction, location, use, electrification and maintenance of all signs and sign structures. The intent of the standards set forth below is to: (A) encourage the design of signs that attract and invite the public's attention; (B) promote the enhancement of business properties and their neighborhoods through the erection of signs complementary with their buildings and uses and harmonious with their surroundings; (C) to protect the public's interest and safety; and (D) to protect the right of business to identify its premises and advertise products on the premises through the use of signs. This chapter shall not regulate building design, official directional signs, traffic signs, copy of signs (except as provided in Section 23.42.120Q5), design of signs, signs not intended to be viewed from a public right-of-way, window displays, point of purchase advertising displays such as product dispensers and candy machines, national flags, flags of political subdivisions, gravestones, holiday decorations, historical site plaques or other such signs of a noncommercial nature.

(Ord. 11274 § 3 (part), 1996)