(A) One freestanding or attached sign is permitted on each street frontage of a lot for each purpose listed below. An additional sign for each purpose is permitted for every 100 feet of street frontage or major fraction thereof.
(B) However:
(1) For business signs, any number of signs are permitted as long as their total area does not exceed the maximum below;
(2) Advertising signs and business signs must be at least 60 feet apart; and
(3) No sign exceeding 30 square feet in size may be located within 75 feet of a residentially zoned district.
Type of Signs | Where Permitted | Maximum Size |
Type of Signs | Where Permitted | Maximum Size |
Advertising (billboards) | C and I zones subject to § 155.234 | 150 sq. ft. each face for back to back billboard sign1 |
Apartment bulletin board | R-3 zone | 6 sq. ft. |
Business, excepted for agricultural and horticultural products | Any zone but R-1 and R-3 | 30 sq. ft. |
Directional | Any zone but R-1, R-2 and R-3 | 6 sq. ft. |
For sale, for rent, sold and rented | Any zone | 6 sq. ft. |
Home occupation or home profession | Any zone | 2 sq. ft. |
Identification and information of churches, schools and other nonprofit institutions | Any zone | 20 sq. ft. |
Temporary sign for sale of agricultural and horticultural products and for constructing projects | Any zone | 10 sq. ft. |
Traffic | Any zone | |
Trespassing | Any zone | 1 sq. ft. |
Utility | Any zone | 2 sq. ft. |
Work sign of builders, painters and other artisans while performing work on the premises | Any zone | 6 sq. ft. |
1 Special permit from Zoning Hearing Board must be obtained | ||
(Prior Code, Ch. 27, § 27-1401) (Ord. 293, passed 4-20-1992, § 14.1; Ord. 3-2006, passed 7-17-2006, § 1)