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A Framework for On-Premise Sign Regulations
Organization: Signage Foundation, Inc.
Year: 2009
This model sign code is intended for smaller municipalities and discusses the framework for formulating sign regulations as well as legal considerations and provides model regulatory guidelines.
Adams Outdoor Advertising, LP v. Zoning Hearing Board of Smithfield Township, 909 A.2d 469 (PA.Cmwlth.2006).
Organization: PA Commonwealth Court
Year: 2006
Commonwealth court case sustaining a zoning hearing board's decision to require the removal of off-site signs due to the landowner’s voluntary request for a change in the land use. An appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was denied.
Best Practices in First Amendment Land Use Regulations
Organization: Planning & Environmental Law Commentary
Year: 2009
This article discusses a number of land use regulations related to the First Amendment among them signage and billboards.
City of West Hollywood, California Sign Design Guidelines
Organization: City of West Hollywood, California
An example of sign ordinance design guidelines.
City of West Hollywood, California Sign Ordinance
Organization: City of West Hollywood, California
An example of a sign ordinance.
Context-Sensitive Signage Design
Organization: American Planning Association
Year: 2001
This publication provides an overview of sign regulation, discusses legal issues, safety, aesthetics, and provides some national case study examples of the process for adopting sign ordinances.
Context-Sensitive Signs
Organization: American Planning Association
Year: 2002
CD-ROM with educational materials on how communities decide on the right level and type of control, case studies of how signs have been created to blend visually with other aspects of design, legal requirements of a constitutionally sound sign ordinance, opportunities and limitations that communities face when they regulate signage, and the valuable roles signs play in a community and why you cannot do without them.
Model Sign Ordinance-Pocono Mountain Chamber of Commerce
Organization: Monroe County, PA
Year: 2009
This model sign code was drafted for Monroe County municipalities and was written based upon local municipal ordinances.
Municipalities Planning Code (MPC) - Adoption of Sign Ordinances
Organization: Pennsylvania General Assembly
Excerpts from the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act of 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247, as reenacted and amended regarding adopting sign ordinances. Nineteenth Edition, September 2009.
Pennsylvania Land Use Law Library
Organization: Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development
This website provides information on proposed legislation, state statutes, and land use case law rulings.
Radnor Township (PA) Sign & Billboard Ordinance
Organization: Radnor Township
In Radnor Township in Delaware County, billboards are regulated as a part of the sign ordinance within the zoning ordinance. Radnor’s billboard provisions prohibit digital billboards and have specific requirements for the location, number, size, and height of billboards.
Saving Face – How Corporate Franchise Design can Respect Community Identity
Organization: American Planning Association
Year: 2002
This report shows planners, citizens, and officials how they can successfully advocate for sensitive and contextual corporate franchise design that can respect and even enhance community character and local economic development.
Scenic America
Organization: Scenic America
Year: 2009
A national organization and website devoted to scenic conservation. Their website is a wealth of information, model documents, and court cases, along with many other categories to help you develop a sign ordinance/strategy for your community
Serving on a Sign Ordinance Committee
Organization: United States Sign Council
An excellent document to start your research on crafting a sign ordinance. This document provides a basic understanding of sign ordinances, permissible and prohibited actions of sign ordinance committees, definitions of various sign terminology, and a brief discussion on design review and design review committees.
Sign Application, PA Department of Labor and Industry
Organization: PA Dept. of Labor and industry
Year: 2004
This document can be useful in developing your own sign permit application.
Sign Ordinance, City of Bethlehem
Organization: City of Bethlehem, PA
An example of a sign ordinance that can be used as a model document.
Sign Ordinance, Municipality of Murrysville
Organization: Murrysville, Westmoreland County
Year: 2006
An example of a sign ordinance that can be used as a model document. This is a thorough ordinance with definitions.
Sign Ordinance, West Deer Township
Organization: West Deer Twp., PA
A good example that can be used to create a model document
Sign Ordinances - A Primer on Constitutional Limitations
Organization: The Center for Individual Freedom
A beginners look at the major court cases that have shaped the sign ordinance/free speech debate.
Spriggs v. South Strabane Township Zoning Hearing Board
Organization: PA Commonwealth Court
Year: 2001
Commonwealth Court case affirming a township’s authority to require a sign be removed because it violated the township’s size and placement restrictions. The significance of this case is that the defendant argued that the removal of the sign violated his 1st Amendment rights to free speech because the message was religious in nature.
Street Graphics and the Law
Organization: American Planning Association
Year: 2004
This report outlines a street-graphics system that ensures on-premise signs are expressive, appropriate, and compatible with the character of the community. The system is a legally enforceable regulatory framework that makes good design possible. The CD-ROM includes a model ordinance, links to a community sign ordinance and samples of signs based on the street graphics principles, and more.
Township of Exeter v. Zoning Hearing Board of Exeter Township, 911 A.2d 201 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2006)
Organization: PA Commonwealth Court
Year: 2006
Commonwealth Court case which held that a standard billboard size in the sign industry cannot control a township’s sign ordinance limitation of a billboard’s size, and the fact that industry standard signs are far larger than the size allowed by a sign ordinance does not establish a de facto exclusion of billboards
Upper Southampton Township v. Upper Southampton Township Zoning Hearing Board, 2007 WL4112087 (Pa. 11/20/07)
Organization: PA Supreme Court
Year: 2006
A PA Supreme Court ruling overturning the township’s argument that the construction of billboards falls within the Municipal Planning Code’s definition of land development, therefore requiring a land development permit from the township.
Upper Southampton Township v. Upper Southampton Township Zoning Hearing Board, Appeal of Outdoor Partnership, LLC
Organization: PA Commonwealth Court
Year: 2005
Commonwealth Court case upholding the lower court's finding that a land development plan and approval (in this instance) was required for the construction of billboards in the township, due to the subdivision of the subject property.
