(a) Nature Limited. Outdoor advertising signs erected after the effective date of this chapter shall be limited to advertising goods sold or services rendered on the premises and the name of the business. This provision shall not apply to political signs.
(b) Sign Area. The aggregate sign area or display surface of all exterior signs of every nature shall not exceed three square feet for each lineal foot of primary lot frontage of the business being advertised.
(c) Illuminated signs. Display signs illuminated by electricity, or equipped in any way with electrical devices or appliances, shall conform with respect to wiring and appliances to the provisions of the ordinances in the City relating to electrical installations. Signs shall not be illuminated by fluorescent lamps using more than 425 milliamperes or by transformers of more than thirty milliamperes capacity. Fluorescent lamps of 800 milliamperes may be used provided the spacing between such lamps is no less than nine inches from center to center of the lamp and such lamps are not closer than five inches from the center of the lamp to the inside face or faces of the sign. Signs shall not be illuminated by incandescent lamps of more than seventy-five watts, and such lamps shall not be closer from center to center than nine inches.
(d) Location; Attached Signs.
(1) All attached signs shall be mounted on the building which houses the business advertised by such signs and shall be located on or along a wall of such building which faces the street, parking lot or service drive.
(Ord. 17-16. Passed 5-9-17.)
(2) Such signs not more than fifteen inches in height and five square feet in area, projecting outward from the building wall not more than four feet, may be erected at each entrance to such building, provided that they comply with all other provisions of this chapter. The area of such signs shall not be included in determining the aggregate sign area of such building.
(3) Signs may be installed on an attached canopy, roof or marquee which projects beyond the building over a walk or yard, provided that no part of such a sign may extend above such canopy, roof or marquee and provided that they comply with all other appropriate provisions.
(4) No part of any sign in this section shall be less than eight feet above ground level.
(e) Free Standing Signs. Free-standing signs may be erected henceforth only in accordance with the following:
(1) Such signs heretofore erected, maintained and now in place, but not in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, are hereby declared to be conditionally permitted signs. They may be maintained until declared unsafe by action of the Zoning Inspector. However, no such conditionally permitted sign shall hereafter be relocated, rebuilt, enlarged, extended, replaced or otherwise altered in any material respect.
(2) No free standing sign shall be placed or anchored on the sidewalk or on the boulevard, nor shall any part of such sign, or the pole or support that holds or supports such sign, extend into or over any street, highway, alley, public walkway, sidewalk or boulevard. No such sign, its base, or any part of the structure shall be closer to the curb line than ten feet or the edge of the pavement when there is no curb. In case of a corner lot or other situations where the property abuts more than one public street, including alleys, the ten-foot limitation shall be determined by measuring from the primary street.
(f) Traffic Safety; Colors, Etc. Display signs shall not closely resemble the shape, form and color of official traffic signs, signals and devices.
(g) Traffic Obstruction. No display sign shall be so placed that it will obstruct or interfere with a required doorway or other required means of ingress and egress or with the flow of traffic.