(a) No permit is required to place, erect or display the following signs in the Central Business District – C-1 and General Commercial District C-2, but all signs must be in conformance with the regulations of this Chapter and all other requirements set forth in this Code:
(1) No permit is required to place, erect or display any sign permitted under Section 1157.06 in the Central Business District and General Commercial District.
(2) Incidental signs not to exceed two (2) square feet per sign face per tenant space.
(b) A permit is required to place, erect or display the following signs in the Central Business District – C-1 and General Commercial District C-2, however, in the Central Business District – C-1 the total sign area shall not exceed one hundred twenty-five (125) square feet in cumulative area per premises.
(1) One freestanding sign per premises not to exceed two (2) square feet in sign area for each linear foot or main street frontage, up to a maximum of twenty-five (25) square feet. Such sign shall not exceed a height of twenty (20) feet. No part of any freestanding sign shall extend over any public sidewalk or public street, or part thereof.
(2) In those portions of C-1 Districts not restricted by zero lot line, maximum of sixty-six (66) square feet and thirty-five (35) feet height are allowed.
(3) Two (2) painted wall signs or wall signs per tenant space not to exceed two and one-half (2½) square feet in sign area for each linear foot of that occupancy’s building frontage, up to a maximum of one hundred twenty- five (125) square feet per premise.
(4) One under canopy sign per tenant space, not to exceed four (4) square feet in sign area, the area of which shall not be included in the maximum area permitted.
(5) One non-illuminated projecting sign per tenant space not to exceed three (3) square feet per sign face.
(6) Awning signs, the area of which shall be included in the maximum 125 Sq. Ft. sign area permitted per premise in the Central Business District – C-1.
(c) Supplementary Regulations for the Central Business District – C-1 and General Commercial District C-2. The following supplementary regulations shall apply to all signage within the Central Business District – C-1 and General Commercial District C-2:
(1) Each sign erected, hung or suspended and which extends over and across any public sidewalk, public street or part thereof, shall not extend out from the building or structure upon which sign is erected, suspended or hung a distance greater than eight (8) feet, nor in any event, except as hereinafter provided, to a point nearer than three (3) feet from any curb line extended vertically. No such sign shall be erected so as to have less than eight (8) feet of vertical clearance between such sign and the public sidewalk or way over which such sign is suspended, erected or hung; however, this provision shall not apply to signs upon, but not suspended from, any marquee, in which case the sign may extend to within three (3) feet of the curb line of the street.
(2) Additional wall signs or painted wall signs shall be permitted at the rate of three percent (3%) of the exposed surface area of each side or rear wall up to a maximum of one hundred twenty-five (125) square feet per additional face.
(3) On a corner lot one additional wall sign or painted wall sign and additional canopy, under-canopy, awning and marquee signs shall be permitted on the additional frontage, not to exceed the size limitations of other allowed wall and painted wall signs.
(4) All signs shall conform to Ohio law regarding copy and use of symbols on the sign face.
(d) Prohibited Signs. The following types of signs are prohibited in the Central Business District – C-1 in addition to the prohibitions found in Section 1157.03.
(2) Off-premise signs (billboards).
(3) Roof signs and portable signs.
(e) Prohibited Signs. The following types of signs are prohibited in the Central Business District – C-1 and General Commercial District C-2: in addition to the prohibitions found in Section 1157.03.
(1) Signs, which advertise goods or services and are placed on vehicles or trailers, which are parked or located for the primary purpose of displaying, said sign (this does not apply to signs or lettering on buses, taxis or other vehicles operating during the normal course of business).
(2) Signs placed or displayed on a building wall to advertise goods or services not pertaining to the permitted use conducted on the premises.
(3) Any illuminated sign lighting device that does not emit light of constant intensity, or which contains flashing, intermittent or moving light or lights (this does not apply to an automatic changeable copy sign).
(Ord. 2003-80. Passed 10-21-03.)