The following are general specifications applicable to the various permitted signs. (Additional specifications regarding size, number, location and permitted types of signs are set forth in the individual zoning districts.)
(A) Wall sign.
(1) The maximum permitted aggregate area of wall signs per premises may be increased beyond that which is normally allowed using either (but not both) of the following methods.
(a) If a free-standing identification sign is not used on the premises, the aggregate area of wall signs may be increased by a maximum of 50% per premises in all zoning districts, except the C-B District.
(b) The aggregate area of all wall signs per premises may be increased based on the distance, the principal building is set back from the required front setback line. Said increase shall be in accordance with the following table:
Principal Building Distance Setback from the Required Front Setback | Allowed Aggregate Wall Sign Area Increase |
Principal Building Distance Setback from the Required Front Setback | Allowed Aggregate Wall Sign Area Increase |
0 - 49 feet | 0% |
50 - 99 feet | 25% |
100 - 149 feet | 50% |
150 - 199 feet | 75% |
200 - 249 feet | 100% |
250 - 299 feet | 125% |
300 - 349 feet | 150% |
350 - 399 feet | 175% |
400 feet or more | 200% |
(2) No wall sign shall project more than 18 inches from the building wall. Further, no wall sign or its supporting structure shall cover any window or part of a window.
(3) (a) Canopy and awning signs may be substituted for part or all of the allowable wall signage per premises.
(b) Signs may be painted or printed onto a canopy or awning.
(c) In no instance shall a canopy or awning sign extend into a street right-of-way.
(d) This division (A)(3) shall not apply to the C-B District.
(4) A projecting sign may be substituted for part or all of the allowable wall signage per premises. A projecting sign shall not project more than four feet from a building. In no instance shall a projecting sign extend into a street right-of-way.
(B) Free-standing signs.
(1) All free-standing signs shall be located behind and not extend into the street right-of-way, except as provided elsewhere in this chapter. All signs greater than two and one-half feet in height as measured from the grade of the road or having a vertical clearance of less than ten feet shall be located a minimum of five feet behind the street right-of-way (unless a greater setback is provided elsewhere in this chapter).
(2) No free-standing sign greater than five square feet in area shall be located closer than to ten feet to any adjacent lot line. A 20-foot side-yard setback shall be required if the side lot line abuts a residential (R-A, R-20, R-10) district. Greater setbacks shall be provided if otherwise required.
(C) Supplemental directory/directional signs.
(1) (a) In order to maintain the flow of traffic on arterial and collector roads and to promote vehicular safety, emphasis is made to limit the number of ingress and egress points off of such roads.
(b) In order to direct attention to planned multi-tenant developments which are not directly accessible off of such roads and where on-premises signage for that development (or any tenants within the development) would not otherwise be visible by the motorists traveling on nearby arterial or collector roads, provisions are made to provide directory signs which identify the name of the particular development and/or the names of their tenants.
(c) Such signs would be supplemental to signage otherwise provided for such developments.
(2) For any shopping center, office park, industrial park or similar planned multi-tenant non-residential development, supplemental directory/directional signs may be erected under the following conditions.
(a) Access to the development is made only through a local street. There shall no direct points of ingress and egress to the development off an arterial or collector road.
(b) A maximum of two supplemental directory/directional signs per development shall be allowed. No two signs shall be allowed closer than 500 feet to each other using the closest straight line measurement.
(c) No such sign shall be placed within a road right-of-way nor within five feet of said right-of-way. All such directory signs shall be ground-mounted.
(d) The sign may contain the name of the development, a map of the development, names of tenants within the development, directional arrows and distance information.
(e) The size of each directory sign shall be a function of the number of tenants within the development. Each such sign may initially contain an area of 40 square feet or ten square feet per principal use within the development, whichever is greater, with a maximum area of 80 square feet.
(f) Such signs may be placed on or off the premises. All such signs shall be constructed and located, however, so as to be visible by the motorist traveling on the arterial or collector road which intersects with the local road providing access to the development.
(g) Such signs shall not exceed a height of 20 feet.
(Ord. passed - -, § 8.12) Penalty, see § 10.99