Rancho Palos Verdes

The aggregate sign area for permanent signs on nonresidential properties shall not exceed 0.5 square feet of sign area per linear foot of building frontage.

The following standards apply to permanent freestanding signs (ground-mounted directory signs and monument signs) on all residential properties... Maximum sign area: 40 square feet. Maximum structure height: Six feet. Maximum width: Six feet. Setback: Minimum five feet from a property line.

Signs on residential properties shall comply with the standards provided in this section and, as applicable, in section 17.75.080.

Signs in or on any public property are prohibited, except for temporary signs as follows: Only A-frame signs are permitted... Signs shall be no taller than 36 inches from grade. Individual sign faces shall not be larger than five square feet.

Signs in or on any public property are prohibited, except for temporary signs as follows: Only A-frame signs are permitted.

Murals may be painted on, tiled, or affixed to a building... No part of a mural shall extend more than six inches from the plane of the wall... No mural shall be arranged and illuminated in a manner that will produce a light intensity of greater than three footcandles above ambient lighting.

Murals may not contain commercial messages... Murals must comply with the following construction and placement requirements...

The following signs and/or sign structures, temporary or permanent, are prohibited: Off-premises signs... Signs on public property... Human signs... Rotating, moving, scintillating, blinking or flashing illumination signs... Billboards... Roof signs...

The following signs and/or sign structures, temporary or permanent, are prohibited: Off-premises signs... Signs on public property... Billboards...

Legal nonconforming signs shall be removed without compensation if the sign meets any of the following criteria: Any sign... whose use has ceased... for a period of not less than 90 days. Any sign which has been more than 50 percent destroyed... Any sign that has been moved from its original location... or enlarged by more than five percent sign area or whose height has been increased by five percent...

Legal nonconforming signs shall be removed without compensation if the sign meets any of the following criteria...

anyone constructing a parking lot containing six stalls or more in any zoning district, whether separate or in conjunction with a structure, shall obtain a parking lot permit from the director prior to any development.

anyone constructing a parking lot containing six stalls or more in any zoning district... shall obtain a parking lot permit

Fences, walls and hedges located within the front yard setback area shall meet the following standards: Up to 42 inches in height shall be permitted... Fences and walls up to seven feet in height shall be permitted on any part of a lot not subject to subsection (C)(1)(a)... When combined, the total height of a fence, freestanding wall or retaining wall may not exceed eight feet, as measured from grade on the lower side, and may not exceed seven feet, as measured from grade on the higher side.

All pools, spas and standing bodies of water 18 inches or more in depth shall be enclosed by a structure and/or a fence or wall not less than five feet in height

A minor grading permit shall be used for those projects which meet all of the following criteria: An excavation, fill or combination thereof, in excess of 20 cubic yards, but less than 50 cubic yards, in any two-year period, on a slope of less than 35 percent; or An excavation three feet or more, but less than five feet, below natural grade... A major grading permit shall be used for those projects which result in any of the following: An excavation, fill or combination thereof, in excess of 50 cubic yards in any two-year period; An excavation five feet or more below natural grade...

No finished slopes greater than 35 percent shall be created, except at the point of vehicular access adjacent to driveways...

No finished slopes greater than 35 percent shall be created

The director may grant extreme slope permits for the following uses only: Decks, which extend or cantilever a maximum of six feet into the extreme slope area... Flagpoles up to 16 feet in height...

decks, which extend or cantilever a maximum of six feet into the extreme slope area