CHAPTER 14
SIGNS
SIGNS
SECTION:
10-14-1: Statement Of Purpose
10-14-2: General Regulations
10-14-3: Exempt Signs
10-14-4: Prohibited Signs
10-14-5: Removal/Enforcement
10-14-6: Permanent Signage
10-14-7: Window Promotional Signage
10-14-8: Antioch's Downtown Sign District
10-14-9: Awning/Canopies
10-14-10: Multi-Family Signage
10-14-11: Industrial/Business Park
10-14-12: Institutional Uses (Government, Schools, Parks And Churches)
10-14-13: Restrictions Of Signage
10-14-14: Electronic Message Boards
10-14-15: Temporary Signage
10-14-16: Grand Opening Signage, Closing Signs And Special Event Signs
10-14-17: Sidewalk Signs
10-14-18: Non-Conforming Signs
10-14-19: Sign Applications
10-14-20: Definitions
A. This chapter is intended to create the legal framework for a comprehensive and balanced system to regulate signage that will preserve free speech and promotion of commerce. Furthermore, this chapter is intended to minimize any visual clutter that is harmful to the Village's appearance and to promote safety by limiting signage that could potentially have a negative impact on traffic and pedestrian safety. With these purposes in mind, it is the intent of this chapter to authorize the use of signage to:
1. Promote the free flow of traffic along the Village's arterials and collectors and to protect pedestrians and motorists from injury and property damage which may be fully or partially attributable to cluttered, distracting, or illegible signage.
2. Promote the use of signage that is aesthetically pleasing and of appropriate scale that sensitively integrates into the surrounding context and landscape. This chapter recognizes the difference in context between a commercial arterial and the Village's downtown.
3. Provide for functional flexibility, encourage variety and to create an incentive to relate signage to basic principles of good design.
4. Assure that public benefits derive from expenditures of public funds for the improvement and beautification of streets and other public structures and spaces are protected by exercising reasonable controls over the character and design of graphic structures.
5. Provide for an improved visual environment and to protect prominent corridors within the community by authorizing the use of street signage that is:
a. Compatible with surroundings;
b. Appropriate to the activity that displays them;
c. Expressive of the identity of the individual activities and the community as a whole; and
d. Legible in the circumstances in which they are seen. (Ord. 17-06-20, 6-12-2017)
A. Sign Area Calculations:
1. Ground Signs: Ground signs shall be calculated by determining the net rectangular area enclosing the sign including the outer edges of the lettering, characters or delineations. Architectural treatments surrounding the signage will not be included as the sign area, provided it does not exceed one hundred percent (100%) of the total sign face. For double-sided signs, only one face shall be considered in determining the sign area.
2. Wall, Window, Awning And Canopy Signs: The sign face area shall be calculated by determining the area of the sign face including the frame, if any. The sign face area of wall, window, awning or canopy signs consisting of individually-mounted letters shall be deemed to be the area of the smallest rectangular figure which can encompass all letters and graphics.
B. Setbacks:
1. All signs shall be set back not less than ten feet (10') or five feet (5') within Downtown Sign District.
2. All such signs located on a corner lot shall not be located within the vision triangle as defined in this chapter.
3. Ground signs on adjoining lots must have a minimum separation distance of thirty feet (30'). Lots that develop before their bordering lots shall locate their ground sign(s) in such a way as to provide an opportunity for adjacent lots to erect a ground sign that meets this requirement.
C. Vision Triangle: No building or structure shall be erected or maintained, nor any landscaping exceeding thirty six inches (36") in height shall be grown or maintained within a triangular area determined by a diagonal line connecting two (2) points measured along the property lines of the abutting streets twenty five feet (25') equidistant from the intersection of those property lines, so as to obstruct or obscure the vision of drivers of motor vehicles on either or both streets. This provision shall apply on all collectors and arterials within the Village. However, an exemption to this provision shall be allowed in downtown as defined by the Antioch Downtown Signage District when a building location would promote context sensitive design.
D. Traffic Safety: No sign shall be maintained at any location where by reason of its position, size, shape or color it may obstruct, impair, obscure, interfere with the view of or be confused with any traffic control sign, signal or device, or where it may interfere with, mislead or confuse traffic. The decision on the determination of a traffic hazard shall rest with the Community Development Director with consultation with the Village's Emergency Services. (Ord. 17-06-20, 6-12-2017)
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