ATTACHED SIGN: | A sign attached to a building or wall. |
BANNER: | A Sign made of cloth, canvas, vinyl, or other flexible material used to display a message or draw attention to an activity or site. A banner may be suspended between two (2) structures, hung from a single structure or pole, or attached to a wall or other structure. The term “banner” includes devices referred to as blade, feather, sail, shark fin, swooper, teardrop, triangle, and wind flags. |
BILLBOARD: | An Off-premises Sign which is leased or rented by its owner to a third party for the purpose of conveying a commercial or noncommercial message. |
COMMERCIAL SIGN: | A sign that advertises a business, location, product, service, or other commercial activity. |
COPY: | The lettering and/or graphics displayed on a sign. |
ELECTRONIC MESSAGE DISPLAY: | A sign or portion thereof capable of displaying words, symbols, figures, or images that are electronically or mechanically changed by remote or automatic means. An Electronic Message Display may be a Freestanding Sign or an Attached Sign. |
FREESTANDING SIGN: | A sign which is wholly detached from a building and which is supported by a pole or poles, a frame, or other support structure. |
LEGAL NONCONFORMING SIGN: | Any sign which met the requirements of the Sign Code, if any, when it was erected or placed, but which does not meet the requirements of the current Sign Code. |
OFF-PREMISES SIGN: | Any sign related to a business, a service, goods, product, event, or facility which is not available on the property upon which the sign is located. |
PERMANENT SIGN: | A sign that is designed or intended to be used on an indefinite or permanent basis. |
READER BOARD: | A sign allowing for manually changeable copy. |
SHOPPING CENTER: | A building or group of buildings planned, developed, and/or used primarily for retail purposes with two (2) or more business occupants. |
SIGN: | Any object upon which words, symbols, or illustrations are affixed, painted, or represented directly or indirectly, and which directs attention to, or is designed or intended to direct attention to, an object, product, place, activity, event, person, institution, organization, or business, and which is visible outside the boundaries of the parcel on which it is located. |
SIGN AREA: | The total area of a sign face, including all decorative or structural trim or other attention getting devices, exclusive of essential structural supports. Where a sign is of a three-dimensional, spherical, cubic, or irregular solid shape, the largest cross section shall be used in a flat projection for the purpose of determining sign area. Whenever a sign is made of letters or numbers located individually upon a single surface wall, the area of the sign shall be determined by the size of the rectangle the copy occupies. |
SIGN STRUCTURE: | The supports, uprights, braces, and framework of a sign. |
TEMPORARY SIGN: | A sign that is intended to be used on a temporary rather than indefinite or permanent basis, including any sign that is readily movable or not affixed to a sign structure, building, or foundation. (Ord. 3698 §3, 2022) |