8-4I-6: GENERAL REGULATIONS:
   A.   Permitted roof signs or sign structures that extend beyond or overhang any exterior wall of the building upon which secured shall require conditional use approval or as specified herein.
   B.   Where permitted, no more than one projecting sign structure shall be allowed for each grade level use on each street frontage, plus one additional projecting sign for each one hundred fifty feet (150') of street frontage devoted to a single use.
   C.   No sign or sign structure shall be placed on private or public property without the written consent of the owners, or agents thereof.
   D.   No sign background area facing the side or rear property line of an abutting residential base district shall be located within fifty feet (50') of such side or rear property line.
   E.   Flashing and/or animated signs shall be prohibited within three hundred feet (300') of any property within a residential base district.
   F.   If the adjacent street grade to which the sign is oriented is more than ten feet (10') greater than the grade elevation at the base of the sign structure, the adjacent street grade may be used in determining the permitted height. This provision shall apply to all freestanding sign structures.
   G.   Signs or sign structures erected or to be erected for a nonconforming use shall not be enlarged, altered, located or otherwise provided, other than permitted in this article or by section 8-1B-5 of this title.
   H.   Signs at railroad and street intersections shall not be permitted in the "clear vision triangle" as herein defined.
   I.   For the purpose of preventing the blanketing of one sign by another, the following provisions regulating the size of a sign and its location shall govern:
      1.   No projecting sign shall be erected in the same horizontal plane with other projecting signs unless the sizes are spaced as set forth in table 8-4I-1 of this section, measured center to center:
TABLE 8-4I-1: OVERLAP OF PROJECTING SIGNS AND REQUIRED SPACING
 
Overlap Of Projecting Signs
Spacing Between Signs
3 feet or less
10 feet
Greater than 3 feet to 4 feet
20 feet
Greater than 4 feet to 6 feet
25 feet
Greater than 6 feet
30 feet
 
      2.   Any projecting sign erected at a shorter distance than required above shall be erected above the top edge or below the bottom edge of the blanketed sign.
   J.   For the purposes of this article, distance for the purpose of establishing location shall refer to the linear distance in either direction on the street to which the sign faces only.
   K.   Illumination of signs shall be subject to the regulations in article H of this chapter.
   L.   Unless otherwise specified in this article, signs shall have a minimum setback of five feet (5') from any property line.
   M.   An application for any sign for which no regulation in this title is applicable shall be considered by the commission under the conditional use procedure as outlined in chapter 5, article B of this title, and such application shall be approved or denied in accord with the intent of these regulations. (Ord. 389, 6-14-2000; amd. Ord. 426, 9-26-2001)