Billboards shall comply with all of the following location requirements:
(a) Billboards shall be located only in U-4 Warehousing Districts, U-5 Industrial and Manufacturing Districts and the U-7 Brookpark Road Corridor Special District.
(b) Billboards shall be located only adjacent to Interstate highways and divided State primary highways. Billboards shall not be readable except incidentally from any street which is not designated as an Interstate or divided State primary highway.
(c) Billboards shall be located not less than:
(1) 250 feet from the pavement edge of any street or road not designated as an Interstate or divided State primary highway. The distance from the edge of the pavement shall be measured horizontally along a line perpendicular to the centerline of the highway to the edge of the billboard face closest to the pavement edge.
(2) 1,500 feet from any other billboard on the same side of the roadway. The distance between billboards shall be measured between sign faces in the direction of travel of traffic on the side of the roadway where the billboard is to be located.
(3) 500 feet from any interchange. The distance from an interchange shall be measured from the nearest point of the beginning or ending of the pavement-widening of the exit or entrance roadway to the main traveled way of the Interstate highway or divided State primary highway.
(Ord. 8496-1998. Passed 1-5-99.)