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SEC. 51A-7.1507.   SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR ATTACHED SIGNS.
   The regulations relating to the erection of attached signs in this district are expressly modified as follows:
   (a)   Location restrictions.
      (1)   No attached sign may be erected on a facade unless it faces a public right-of-way that is adjacent to the lot where the sign is proposed to be located.
      (2)   No small words may be on an attached sign erected partially or totally within an upper facade in either the Spine or Quadrangle Subdistricts.
      (3)   In the Peripheral Subdistrict, no attached sign may be erected on:
         (A)   an upper facade; or
         (B)   a lot where a detached sign is erected.
   (b)   Effective area.
      (1)   Spine and Quadrangle Subdistricts. In the Spine and Quadrangle Subdistricts, the combined effective area of all attached signs:
         (A)   on a lowrise building or a lower facade may not exceed ten percent of the total area of the building facade or the lower facade, as the case may be; and
         (B)   on an upper facade may not exceed five percent of the total area of the lower facade.
      (2)   Peripheral Subdistrict. In the Peripheral Subdistrict, the combined effective area of all attached signs on a lowrise building or a lower facade may not exceed eight percent of the total area of the building facade or the lower facade, as the case may be.
   (c)   Flat attached signs.
      (1)   No flat attached sign may project more than eight inches from a building.
      (2)   A flat attached sign may be erected on an arcade, but it may not project above the roof of the attached building.
   (d)   Projecting attached signs.
      (1)   A projecting attached sign may be erected on an arcade, but it may not project above the roof of the attached building.
      (2)   No projecting attached sign may be erected partially or totally within an upper facade.
      (3)   No face of a projecting attached sign erected below the bottom of a second story window may exceed eight square feet.
      (4)   No face of a projecting attached sign erected above the bottom of a second story window may exceed 15 square feet.
   (e)   Marquee signs.
      (1)   No marquee sign may:
         (A)   exceed 100 square feet in effective area;
         (B)   be longer than one-half of the length of the frontage of the building to which the marquee is attached; and
         (C)   be located above the bottom of a second story window.
      (2)   A marquee sign must:
         (A)   be parallel to the surface to which it is attached; and
         (B)   have a height dimension between two and six feet.
      (3)   No premise may have more than one marquee sign.
      (4)   A marquee sign may be erected only on a building that contains a theater use.
      (5)   A marquee sign may consist of up to 100 percent plastic.
   (f)   Window signs.
      (1)   Except as modified by Paragraph (2), the effective area of a window sign may not exceed more than 25 percent of the area of a window or 10 percent of the facade area, whichever is less.
      (2)   If a window sign uses neon bulbs, the effective area of that sign may not exceed more than 15 percent of the area of a window.
      (3)   No window sign may be erected on an upper facade. (Ord. 21145)