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Please substitute for Ordinance No. 2 -16. Placed on 1" Reading and referred to the Committee of the Whole & Planning Commission on 1/19/16, 2 "d Reading 2/1/16, Referred to Committee of the Whole 3/7/16, Deferred 3/21/16. ORDINANCE NO. 2-16 BY: Anderson, Bullock, Litten, Marx, O'Leary, O'Malley. AN ORDINANCE to amend various sections within Chapter 1329, Signs, of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood and other sign - related sections in order to update the code. WHEREAS, in July 2015 the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Reed v. Gilbert; and WHEREAS, the Court for the first time has ruled that a sign code which categorically regulates signage and that requires the content of the sign to be read to determine the category of sign as content -based regulation and, therefore, unconstitutional under the First Amendment; and WHEREAS, Lakewood's current sign code may fall within this prohibited regulation on speech as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Reed case; and WHEREAS, updates are required to insure that Lakewood maintains reasonable regulations of signage within the community without violating First Amendment rights; and WHEREAS, Article 18, Section 3 of the Constitution of the State of Ohio permits municipalities to exercise all powers of local self - government and to adopt and enforce within their limits such as local police, sanitary and other regulations as are not in conflict with general laws; now, therefore BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. Chapter 1329, Signs, of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood, currently reading as follows: CHAPTER 1329 Signs 1329.01 INTENT. (a) Sign regulations, including provisions to control the type, design, size, location, illumination and maintenance thereof, are established in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes: (1) To promote attractive and maintain high value residential districts by permitting only nameplates, bulletin boards and signs related to the develop, rental or sale of properties in such districts;