New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19K - CASINO CONTROL COMMISSION/CASINO REINVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY › Chapter 66 - CASINO REINVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY TOURISM DISTRICT LAND DEVELOPMENT RULES › Subchapter 5 - ZONE DISTRICT USE STANDARDS › Section 19:66-5.7 - Signs

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) Purpose. The regulation of signs by this section is intended to promote and protect the public health, safety, and welfare of the Tourism District by creating a more attractive economic and business climate within the commercial, resort, and industrial areas of the Tourism District by enhancing and protecting the physical appearance of all areas of the Tourism District and by reducing the distractions, obstructions, and hazards to pedestrian and auto traffic caused by the indiscriminate placement and use of signs.
(b) Scope. This subchapter shall govern and control the erection, enlargement, expansion, alteration, operation, maintenance, relocation, and removal of all signs within the Tourism District visible from any street, road, sidewalk, public, or private property. Any sign not expressly permitted by this section shall be prohibited. This section relates to the location of signs, by function and type, within zoning districts and shall be in addition to provisions of the City building code and the City electrical code applicable to the construction and maintenance of signs.
(c) A CLUC shall be required as follows:
1. Except as expressly provided in this section, no sign shall be erected, enlarged, expanded, altered, or relocated unless a CLUC evidencing the compliance of such work with the provisions of this subchapter and other applicable provisions of this chapter shall have first been issued, provided, however, that routine sign maintenance, changing of parts designed to be changed or changing the content of a sign in any manner, which does not change the functional classification of the sign shall not, standing alone, be considered an alteration of the sign requiring the issuance of a CLUC.
2. Every application for a CLUC for a sign shall be accompanied by a copy of plans and specifications showing the method of construction, illumination, and support of such sign and a sketch, drawn to scale, showing signs faces, exposed surfaces, and the proposed message and design accurately represented as to size, area, proportion, and color; by black and white photographs of the street sides of the property in question, showing all existing signs on the property; by a calculation of the total amount of sign area presently existing on the property; and by the applicant's attestation that the number of and the sum of the areas of the requested sign or signs and the existing signs do not exceed the maximum allowable by the provisions of this chapter.
3. Upon receipt of an application, the items submitted therewith shall be reviewed by the land use administrator to determine if the essential elements of the application have been satisfied. If the application is incomplete, the land use administrator shall deny the permit and advise the applicant of the deficiencies within 10 business days. An application for a CLUC shall be approved or disapproved within 10 working days after it is received by the land use administrator in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. The CLUC shall be sent to the applicant with a copy to the City construction official and City clerk.
4. Any non-compliant signage will require a variance application and a hearing, where the applicant must provide the statutory proofs in accordance with the applicable MLUL standards.