1263.09 COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS.
Sign Type
Commercial and Industrial Districts
Each parcel used in accordance with permitted uses or legal nonconforming non-residential uses
All Signs
Where a commercial parcel abuts a residential parcel, the setback distance of the sign shall be increased one foot for every square foot of signs
Temporary Signs
Maximum Area: 24 square feet. No individual sign shall exceed 12 square feet. Parcels with greater than 300-foot of frontage are permitted an additional 12 square feet of temporary signage.
Maximum Height: 4 feet
Setbacks: At least 3 feet from the rights-of-way and interior property lines
Freestanding Sign
Each parcel used in accordance with permitted uses or legal nonconforming non-residential uses
For properties having frontage on a limited access highway (I-94/M66) only
 
Maximum Number: 1 per property. Where more than one tenant or buildings shares a single parking area, there shall be permitted only 1 freestanding sign. Properties having frontage on more than one street rights-of-way are allowed a freestanding sign on each, however each secondary sign shall not exceed 50% the size of the primary sign.
Maximum Number: 1 freestanding sign on their premises, specifically oriented to traffic on the limited access highway
Maximum Area: 150 square feet
Maximum Height: 25 feet above the grade level of the limited access highway (I-94) at its nearest point to the sign
 
Maximum Area: The allowable area is no greater than 1.2 times the parcel frontage, not exceeding 100 square feet
Maximum Height: 25 feet
Setbacks: At least 5 feet from any street right-of-way (but under no circumstance closer than 10 feet to the edge of the road)
Setbacks: The sign may not be less than 25 feet nor more than 50 feet from the highway right-of-way line and may not be less than 100 feet from any other freestanding sign.
Wall Signs
These signs are permitted to be on any side of the building facing a parking lot or street so long as they do not project away from the buildings surface further than the thickness of the sign and they are not facing any residential district or use.
Maximum Area: Shall not exceed 10% of the wall area where the sign is placed, not exceeding 200 square feet.
Window Signs
Maximum Area: Shall not exceed 30% of each window area
Blade Sign
One sign shall be permitted for each side of the building fronting on a street or alley in a commercial district.
Maximum Area: 8 square feet each side on a street and 6 square feet each side on an alley
The sign shall project no more than 4 feet from the building and the bottom of the sign shall be a minimum of 8 feet above grade.
Signs shall not be directly or indirectly illuminated.
Canopy Sign
Maximum Area: Shall not exceed 1.2 times the canopy frontage in square footage in total this can be used in combination with other specified signs.
Drive-up/drive-thru businesses
Maximum Number: 1 sign per drive up lane in the side or rear yard. Each additional service window is allowed 1 sign not to exceed 24 square feet.
Maximum Area: 32 square feet.
Maximum Height: 8 feet from grade
Automatic changeable copy signs
Maximum Area: Shall not exceed 50% of the total allowed sign area for the premises.
 
(Ord. 10-2020. Passed 11-24-20; Ord. 03-2023. Passed 5-2-23; Ord. 12-2023. Passed 10-17-23; Ord. 11-2024. Passed 7-16-24.)