BILLBOARD: A sign which meets any one or more of the following criteria:
(1) A permanent structure which is used for the display of off-site commercial messages;
(2) A Permanent structure sign which constitutes a principal, separate or secondary use, as opposed to an accessory use of the parcel on which it is located;
(3) A sign used as advertising for hire, e.g., on which display space is made available to parties, other than the owner or operator of the sign or occupant of the parcel in exchange for a rent, fee or other consideration; or
(4) An off-site advertising sign on which space is leased or rented.
DISPLAY SIZE OR FACE: The entire advertising area of a sign excluding framing, trim, or supporting structure.
FREESTANDING SIGN: Any sign not affixed to a building.
ILLUMINATED SIGN: Any sign illuminated by electricity, gas or other artificial light, including reflective or phosphorescent light.
STACKED SIGN: A single structure with two outdoor advertising signs with one sign placed directly above the other with their faces oriented in the same direction.
SIDE-BY-SIDE-SIGN: Two adjacent outdoor advertising signs on a single structure with both faces oriented in the same direction.
TRI-VISION SIGN: A sign constructed to use multiple face panels or slats that rotate to different messages in a fixed position.
MARQUEE SIGN: A canopy extending more than two (2) feet from a building, with lettering thereon.
MINOR SIGN: Any sign that is (1) designed to be easily moved, (2) typically not permanently attached to a structure or the ground, and (3) is not illuminated. Such signs include but are not limited to A-frame signs, banners, posters, window signs, yard signs or other movable signs. For purposes of this article, flags and vehicles are not minor signs.
MOBILE SIGN: Any sign not designed or intended to be anchored to the ground and designed and intended to be capable of being transported over public roads and streets, whether or not it is so transported.
MURAL: An on-premises sign that is hand-painted, hand tiled or other similarly created or digitally printed picture/image affixed directly onto a vertical building wall, which may or may not contain text, logos, and/ or symbols.
OFF-SITE OR OFF-PREMISES SIGN: A permanent sign that identifies, advertises or attracts attention to a business, product, service or activity sold, existing or offered at a different location. The off-premises/on-site distinction applies only to commercial messages.
ON-SITE OR ON-PREMISES SIGN: Any sign that identifies, advertises or attracts attention to a business, product, service, event or activity sold, existing or offered upon the same property or land use as the sign. The off-site/on-site distinction applies only to commercial messages.
OUTDOOR SIGN: Any permanent On-Site or On-Premises sign or any permanent noncommercial Off-Site or Off-Premises Sign. For purposes of this ordinance Billboards are excluded from the definition of Outdoor Sign.
PENNANT: Any lightweight plastic, fabric, or other material, whether or not containing a message of any kind, suspended from a rope, wire, or string, usually in series, designed to move in the wind.
PERMANENT SIGN: Any sign intended and installed to be permanently in place at a given location by means of suitable fastening to a building or to a structure specifically erected to hold such sign(s) or to the ground.
ROOF SIGN: Any sign in which all or any part extends above the wall of any building or structure, where said wall does not extend above the roofline. In no event shall a sign permitted as defined by "wall sign" extend beyond the actual wall surface.
SIGN: Any material, structure or device or part thereof composed of lettered or pictorial matter or upon which lettered or pictorial matter is placed when used or located out of doors or outside or on the exterior of any building, including window display area, for display of an advertisement, announcement, notice, directional matter or name, and includes sign frames, billboards, signboards, painted wall signs, hanging signs, illuminated signs, pennants, fluttering devices, projecting signs or ground signs, and shall also include any announcement, declaration, demonstration, display, illustration or insignia used to advertise, inform or promote the interests of any person or business when the same is placed in view of the general public.
TEMPORARY SIGN: A sign intended to display either commercial or non-commercial messages of a transitory or temporary nature. A Temporary Sign includes a portable sign, or any sign not permanently embedded in the ground or not permanently affixed to a building or a sign structure that is not permanently embedded in the ground.
(Passed 9-14-20.)