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Sign Ordinance Issues 7/20/92 Page 6 Seasonal Signs and Banners There are cUlTently no provisions regulating banners and seasonal signs. These type of signs usually are treated as Temporary Signs. Temporary Signs are regulated as follows: Pennits may not be issued for more than 30 days and only 2 such pennits are allowed per calendar year, 90 days between pennit dates. The signs cannot exceed 75 square feet. Spotlights cannot be operated for more than 5 consecutive days. Balloons cannot be more than 35 square feet in diameter, and can be used only one time per year for no more than 5 consecutive days. There are no provisions for seasonal banners, and there are no definitions of banners and types of banners in the ordinance. Possible Solution: Create a Special Events Section of the Sign Ordinance. This would affect both commercial uses and private institutional uses, and would include: Banner DeJinitions: Banner, Bannerette, Balloon, Flag, Pennant, Ribbon or Streamer, Searchlight, Whirling Device, Windsock. ... Prohibited: All of the above are prohibited except as approved by temporary pennit. Permitted: Holiday Signs: "Signs or displays which contain or depict messages pertaining to a national, state, or local holiday and no other matter and which are displayed over a period not to exceed 60 days. Use of such signs and displays shall comply with the same regulations as set forth in this sign ordinance." Flags: "Two Flags are permitted in all Districts. Flags of the United States, the state, the city,foreign nations having diplomatic relations with the United State, and any other flag adopted or sanctioned by an elected legislative body of competent jurisdiction, provided that such a flag shall not exceed 60 square feet in area and, if flown from a pole, shall not exceed a height of 40 feet. These flags must be flown in accordance with protocol established by the Congress of the United States for the Stars and Stripes. Any flag not meeting anyone or more of these . conditions shall be considered a banner sign and shall be subject to regulation as such. "