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The regulations relating to the erection of all signs in this district are expressly modified as follows:
(a) Signs in right-of-way. Signs in this district are permitted to overhang the public right-of-way subject to city franchising requirements.
(b) Materials.
(1) The use of plastic is prohibited, except when it is:
(A) used as a decoration (as opposed to a character) on the exterior face of a sign, in which case no more than five percent of the effective area of the sign may consist of plastic;
(B) placed behind the exterior face of a sign in places where that face has been cut in the shape of a character; or
(C) used in or on a marquee sign.
(2) Although not required, painted applied signs and enameled metal sheet signs are encouraged.
(c) Lighting.
(1) The only light sources that may be used to illuminate a sign are cold cathode, neon, and incandescent lamps.
(2) A light source external to a sign may illuminate a sign if the light does not cross into either a public right-of-way or a residential zoning district.
(3) Illuminated signs on translucent fabric are encouraged.
(4) No light used to illuminate a sign may turn on or off, or change its brightness more than twice a day.
(d) Colors. Fluorescent and neon colors on signs are prohibited. (Ord. 21145)
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)
The regulations relating to the erection of detached signs in this district are expressly modified as follows:
(a) No detached sign may:
(1) exceed 20 feet in height; or
(2) be located within five feet of any public right-of-way.
(b) If a detached sign has an effective area of more than 10 square feet, it must be located at least 10 feet from any public right-of-way.
(c) No detached sign may have an effective area of more than:
(1) 150 square feet if the sign is located in the Quadrangle Subdistrict;
(2) 20 square feet if the sign is located in the Spine Subdistrict; and
(3) 15 square feet if the sign is located in the Peripheral Subdistrict.
(d) In the Peripheral Subdistrict, no detached sign may be erected on a lot where an attached sign is erected.
(e) Detached non-premise signs are prohibited in this district. (Ord. 21145)
A special provision sign district is hereby created to be known as the Farmers Market Sign District. The boundaries of the Farmers Market Sign District are the same as those of the Farmers Market Special Purpose District (Planned Development District No. 357). (Ord. Nos. 22097; 29233)
(a) Camden Sign Subdistrict. The Camden Sign Subdistrict is that area of the Farmers Market Sign District within the following described boundaries:
TRACT 1:
BEING all of Lot 2B in City Block 40/164.
TRACT 2:
BEING all of Lot 1A in City Block 7/153.
TRACT 3:
BEING a tract of land situated in the John Grigsby Survey, Abstract No. 495, in the City of Dallas, Dallas County, Texas and being a portion of Blocks 142, 5/155/4/156, 36/168 and 37/167, a portion of a 200-foot-wide H. & T.C. Railroad right-of-way, a portion of a 150-foot-wide T. & N.O. Railroad spur right-of-way, all as dedicated on the Final Plat of Railroad Addition, an Addition to the City of Dallas according to the Map or Plat thereof recorded in Volume 4 at Page 350 of the Map Records of Dallas County, Texas, a portion of a 20- foot-wide alley situated in Block 4/156 abandoned in Ordinance No. 8234, a portion of St. Louis Street, Paris Street and a w-foot wide alley abandoned in Ordinance No. 11472, a portion of St. Louis Street and 20-foot-wide alleys situated in Blocks 36/168 and 37/167 abandoned Ordinance No. 1570 and a portion of Central Expressway as abandoned on Ordinance No. 23588, same being a portion of Tract “O” conveyed to Camden Property Trust as evidence by a Special Warranty Deed recorded in Volume 98040 at Page 02379 of the Deed Records of Dallas County, Texas (D.R.D.C.T.) and being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows (bearing based on the southwest right-of-way line of Good-Latimer Expressway as described in Ordinance No. 21092, recorded in Volume 91249 at Page 4100 D.R.D.C.T., said bearing being North 36°50'46" West):
BEGINNING at a nail found for the east corner of aforesaid Tract “O,” same being the north corner of a tract of land conveyed to Graybar Electric, Inc., as evidenced in a deed recorded in Volume 3502 at Page 282 D.R.D.C.T., said nail also being on the southwest right-of-way line of Good-Latimer Expressway (a variable width right-of-way);
THENCE in a southwesterly direction, departing the southwest right-of-way line of said Good-Latimer Expressway and along the southwest line of said Tract “O,” the following:
South 53°05'14" West, a distance of 219.11 feet to the point of curvature of a corner to the left;
Along the arc of said curve to the left, through a central angle of 28°50'05", having a radius of 219.64 feet and an arc length of 111.05 feet to a 1/2-inch rod found for the end of said curve;
South 36°29'26" East, a distance of 29.78 feet to a 1/2- inch rod found for corner;
South 53°10'39" West, a distance of 424.89 feet to a corner;
South 36°45'09" East, a distance of 93.67 feet to a corner;
South 52°02'59" West, a distance of 350.00 feet to the south corner of said Tract “O,” same being on the northeast right-of-way line of Cesar Chavez Boulevard (formerly Central Expressway) (a variable width right-of-way);
THENCE in a northwesterly direction, along the southwest line of said Tract “O” and the northeast right-of-way line of said Cesar Chavez Boulevard (formerly Central Expressway), the following:
North 27°01'56" West, a distance of 201.55 feet to a chiseled cross found for the point of curvature of a curve to the left;
Along the arc of said curve to the left, through a central angle of 68°13'29", having a radius of 67.00 feet and an arc length of 79.78 feet to the chiseled cross found for the end of said curve;
North 24°20'27" West, a distance of 145.68 feet to a chiseled cross found for the point of curvature of a curve to the left;
Along the arc of said curve through a central angle of 06°14'28", having a radius of 424.70 feet and an arc length of 46.26 feet to a chiseled cross found for the end of said curve;
North 53°21'43" East, a distance of 93.54 feet to a 1/2- inch iron rod found for the point of curvature of a non-tangent curve to the left;
Along the arc of said curve to the left, through a central angle of 06°50'22", having a radius of 1071.00 feet, a chord bearing of North 82°15'38" West, a chord distance of 127.77 feet and an arc length of 127.85 feet to a chiseled cross found for the end of said curve, same being the south corner of a portion of Cesar Chavez Boulevard (formerly Central Expressway) as abandoned by aforesaid Ordinance No. 23588, recorded in Volume 98187 at Page 061815 D.R.D.C.T.;
THENCE North 36°50'27" West, along the southwest line of said abandonment, and along the current northwest right-of-way line of said Cesar Chavez Boulevard (formerly Central Expressway), a distance of 123.76 feet to the intersection of the northeast right-of-way line of said Cesar Chavez Boulevard (formerly Central Expressway) with the curving southeast right-of-way line of Marilla Street (a variable width right-of-way at this point) as described in a deed recorded in Volume 98183 at Page 05868 D.R.D.C.T., said curve being a curve to the right;
THENCE in a northeasterly direction, along the southeast right-of-way line of said Marilla Street, the following:
Along the arc of said curve to the right, through a central angle of 89°59'41", having a radius of 15.00 feet and an arc length of 23.56 feet to the point of tangency of said curve (Marilla Street being 58-foot-wide at this point);
North 53°09'14" East, a distance of 434.59 feet to the intersection of the southeast right of-way line of said Marilla Street with the southwest right-of-way line of Farmers Market Way (a 58-foot-wide right-of-way);
THENCE South 36°50'46" East, along the southwest right-of-way line of said Farmers Market Way, a distance of 127.50 feet to the intersection of the southwest right-of-way line of said Farmers Market Way with the southeast right-of-way line of Taylor Street (a 58-foot-wide right-of-way);
THENCE North 53°09'14" East, along the southeast right-of-way line of said Taylor Street, a distance of 491.01 feet to the point of curvature of a curve to the right;
THENCE in a easterly direction, continuing along the southeast right-of-way line of said Taylor Street and along the arc of said curve to the right, through a central angle of 90°00'00", having a radius of 15.00 feet and an arc length of 23.56 feet to the point of tangency of said curve, same being on the northeast line of said Tract "O," said corner also being the intersection of the southeast right-of-way line of said Taylor Street with the southwest right-of-way line of aforesaid Good-Latimer Expressway;
THENCE South 39°14'11" East, along the northeast line of said Tract "O" and the southwest right-of-way line of said Good-Latimer Expressway, a distance of 411.92 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING and containing 11.534 acres of land, more or less.
(b) Market Center Sign Subdistrict. The Market Center Sign Subdistrict is that area of the Farmers Market Sign District within the following described boundaries:
BEGINNING at the south corner of a corner clip in the northeast line of Harwood Street and the southwest line of City Block 131;
THENCE North 08°36'06" East, along said corner clip, a distance of 40.00 feet to a point for corner in the south line of said Marilla Street, said point being the north corner of said corner clip;
THENCE along the south line of Marilla Street the following calls;
North 74°47'11" East, a distance of 142.30 feet to a point for corner;
South 45°01'41" East, a distance of 1.11 feet to a point for corner;
North 78°16'02" East, a distance of 192.25 feet to a point for corner;
North 77°52'42" East, a distance of 87.67 feet to a point for corner;
North 74°22'09" East, a distance of 373.33 feet to a point for corner, in the southwest line of South Cesar Chavez Boulevard (a variable width right-of-way);
THENCE South 36°00'00" East, along the southwest line of said Cesar Chavez Boulevard, a distance of 601.81 feet to a point for corner;
THENCE South 32°25'25" East, a distance of 80.16 feet to a point for corner;
THENCE South 10°11'11" East, a distance of 220.32 feet to a point for corner in the south line of Gibson Street, abandoned by Ordinance;
THENCE South 45°34'13" West, along the south line of said abandoned Gibson Street, a distance of 89.59 feet to a point for corner;
THENCE South 71°04'56" West, a distance of 431.66 feet to a point for corner in the northeast line of aforementioned Harwood Street;
THENCE North 45°02'47" West, along the northeast line of said Harwood Street, a distance of 733.28 feet to a point for corner;
THENCE North 45°01'41" West, continuing along the northeast line of said Harwood Street, a distance of 313.77 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING and containing 15.03 acres or 654,661 square feet of land, more or less. (Ord. Nos. 24424; 29233; 29557)
The purpose of this division is to promote signage that is compatible with the architectural character and design guidelines of the Farmers Market Planned Development District while encouraging artistic, creative, and innovative signs that are reflective of themes that have grown and developed in Farmers Market area. (Ord. Nos. 22097; 29233)
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