The purpose of this ordinance is to protect the health, safety, property and welfare of the public, to provide a neat, clean, orderly and attractive appearance of the community, to improve the effectiveness of signs, to provide for safe construction, location, erection, and maintenance of signs, to prevent proliferation of signs and sign clutter, to minimize adverse visual safety factors to travelers on public highways and on private areas open to public travel, and to achieve this purpose consistent with state and federal constitutional limits on the regulation of speech.
To achieve this purpose, it is necessary to regulate the design, quality of materials, construction, location, electrification, illumination, and maintenance of signs that are visible from public property, public rights-of-way, and private areas open to public travel.
Rivergrove Sign Ordinance (PDF)