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San Francisco Planning Department

General Advertising Sign Program

 

Program Summary

The Planning Department’s General Advertising Sign Program is the result of recent legislation amending the Planning Code to improve monitoring and enforcement of regulations related to general advertising signs in San Francisco.  The primary goal of the program is to build and maintain an inventory of general advertising signs in the city in order to correct outstanding violations, and to remove all illegal signs.

General Advertising Defined

A sign, legally erected prior to the effective date of Section 611 of this Code, which directs attention to a business, commodity, industry or other activity which is sold, offered or conducted elsewhere than on the premises upon which sign is located, or to which it is affixed, and which is sold, offered or conducted on such premises only incidentally if at all (San Francisco Planning Code Section 602.7).

History of General Advertising Sign Regulation

General Advertising Sign Inventory Update Information

General Advertising Sign Field Survey

General Advertising Sign Enforcement Process Flowchart (PowerPoint)

Notice of Violation Reconsideration Forms

General Advertising Sign Program Contacts