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(a) In general. Except as provided in this subsection, a person shall not alter, place, maintain, expand, or remove a Southwestern Medical District identification sign in this district without first obtaining a sign permit. A sign permit is not required to:
(1) Change the text on a changeable message sign or a protective sign.
(2) Erect or replace a banner on a street pole using the existing sign hardware. A sign permit is required to install sign hardware for a banner.
(3) Erect a temporary sign that is less than 50 square feet in effective area.
(4) Erect a non-illuminated sign with an effective area of 20 square feet or less.
(5) Erect governmental traffic signs.
(b) Sign permit procedures.
(1) Except as provided in this subsection, the procedures for obtaining a sign permit using the director procedure in Section 51A-7.505(4) apply in this district.
(2) For each sign permit application, a sign plan is required and must include a:
(A) map of the district boundaries with existing and proposed Southwestern Medical District identification signs shown; and
(B) table with the cumulative number of the existing and proposed Southwestern Medical District identification signs tabulated.
(c) Review of application. The director shall review the application and approve or deny it within 30 days of its receipt.
(d) Appeals. Any interested person may appeal the decision of the director by submitting a written request for appeal to the director within 10 days of the decision. Within 30 days after receipt of the written request for appeal, the director shall schedule the appeal on a future city plan commission agenda. The city plan commission shall hold a public hearing to consider the appeal in accordance with Section 51A-7.505(6).
(e) Special event signs. Special event signs are governed by the special event permit regulations in Chapter 42A of the Dallas City Code. (Ord. 29392)
No person shall erect or maintain, or cause to be erected or maintained, any sign using any combination of forms, words, colors, or lights that imitate standard public traffic regulatory or emergency signs or signals. (Ord. 29392)
Except for signs located wholly within the public right-of-way, the director shall not issue a permit for the construction, erection, placement, or maintenance of a sign until a site is established in one of the following ways:
(1) A lot is part of a plat that is approved by the city plan commission and filed in the plat records of Dallas County, Texas.
Nothing in this division shall be construed to regulate the display of a government traffic sign. (Ord. 29392)
(a) Signs may be located within or project over the public right-of-way, subject to the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, the licensing and franchise requirements of Chapter XIV of the city charter, Article VI of Chapter 43 of the Dallas City Code, as amended, and the requirements of this section.
(b) The traffic engineer shall review and must approve the location in, projecting over, or overhanging the public right-of-way to ensure that the sign complies with the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control
Devices, other city ordinances and state laws, and will not pose a traffic or safety hazard or visibility obstruction.
(c) A minimum clearance over public right-of-way must be maintained in accordance with the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
(d) For signs in the right-of-way, if there is a conflict between the text of this division and the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices controls. (Ord. 29392)
(a) Except as provided in this division, signs must comply with the provisions for business zoning districts in Article VII.
(b) Signs may be illuminated by back lighting or indirect lighting.
(c) Neon or single incandescent bulbs are not allowed.
(d) Illuminated signs with an effective area of 500 square feet or less may not have a luminance greater than 300 foot lamberts, nor may any such sign have a luminance greater than 300 foot lamberts for any portion of the sign within a circle two feet in diameter. The measurements of luminance are taken from any other premise or from any public right-of-way other than an alley.
(e) Illuminated signs with an effective area greater than 500 square feet may not have a luminance greater than 200 foot lamberts, nor may any such sign have a luminance greater than 200 foot lamberts for any portion of the sign within a circle of two feet in diameter. The measurements of luminance are taken from any other premise or from any public right-of-way other than an alley.
(f) Changeable messages must follow the requirements of Section 51A-7.303(b).
(g) A sign or part of a sign may not move or rotate, with the exception of a wind device, the motion of which is not restricted.
(h) Signs are not allowed in a visibility triangle.
(i) The number of words allowed on a sign is not limited, unless otherwise restricted by the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
(j) All permanent signs must be premise signs, convey a noncommercial message, list the Southwestern Medical District name and logo, or the name of a hospital or medical or educational use.
(k) Fiberglass as a sign material is allowed.
(l) For detached signs, plastic is not permitted as an exterior face of a sign. Plastic may be used as a backing for routed letters in a sign can or as decorative ornaments.
(m) Except for helipad signs, signs may not be painted onto the roof of a building, and no flat attached sign is permitted on the roof of a building. (Ord. 29392)
The following signs are prohibited in this district:
(a) Videoboard signs.
(b) Supergraphic signs.
(c) Streamers, pennants, and inflatable seasonal decorations. (Ord. 29392)
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