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Shopping Carts

6.24.010 Findings and purpose.
Abandoned shopping carts constitute a nuisance, create potential hazards to the public health and safety and interfere with pedestrian and vehicular traffic within the City. Wrecked, dismantled and/or abandoned shopping carts on public or private property create conditions that reduce property values and promote blight and deterioration within the City’s neighborhoods. The purpose of this chapter is to ensure that measures are taken by cart owners to prevent the removal of shopping carts from store premises. This chapter is based in part on California Business and Professions Code section 22435 and following. (Ord. 1093 § 1 (part), 2006)

I am glad there are people in our community that want to see it cleaned up.

It really honestly doesn't bother me. It takes all kinds of motivations in different areas to make a city run. I personally think that signs trash up a city and if there is a law, then it should be enforced. Those who call attention to it to me are helping out the city workers in enforcement. They can't be everywhere.

If I see graffiti I will report it asap, not move on or look the other way. This is OUR community and we need to take pride in it.

Respectfully.

The signs are getting out of hand again!

Someone should make a point of gathering up the "Garage Sale" signs that are left up after the events take place, and since they have their addresses on them, dump them all on their front yard.

All of them.

Come on people, you are so diligent in putting up the signs to raise money...be community-oriented and use the same energy to ensure Tracy doesn't become the eyesore of the valley.

Just my two cents.

If only it were that easy to toss the signs on their lawns. Then you'd get it for littering or something like that.

It is very hard to keep up with an issue such as signs. Nobody wants them there but at the same time who is willing to take then down because they don't like how they look, all trashy? You take one down, up pops another one right on the very spot the previous one was.

And then there are the A-frames, some that come with specific laws allowing it to be up for a semi-permanent amount of time.

How could the signs be kept track of for multiple offenders. I tear down the ones around my neighborhood. It is to much to ask code enforcement officers to do, with much more serious matters to get to.

Everyone take pride in your community and spiff up their own neighborhoods, keep them clean.

Thank you for responding cmp6655.

(f) Political signs.
(1) Maximum height: Six (6' feet.
(2) Maximum area: Thirty-two (32) square feet.
(3) Calculation of area: One-half square foot of sign area for each lineal foot of parcel frontage.
(4) Permitted zones: All zones.
(5) Sign permit needed: No.
(6) Installation: Signs may not be erected sooner than forty-five (45) days preceding an election or political event.
(7) Removal: Signs shall be removed within five (5) days following an election or political event.

City Ordinance supersedes State Law when State Law is less restrictive.