Only signs for purposes consistent with the uses or activities authorized within the zoning district or for the particular premises may be erected or maintained.
(A) Residential signs.
(1) Permitted residential signs.
(a) A sign identifying a lawful home occupation limited to a nameplate sign not exceeding two square feet in sign area;
(b) A sign identifying an institutional, religious, charitable, educational, or multi-family facility within a residential zoning district not exceeding six square feet in sign area for the first 100 feet of street frontage and an additional two square feet in sign area for each additional 100 feet of street frontage, not to exceed 48 square feet total sign area;
(c) Real estate signs; and
(d) Political signs.
(2) Conditional residential signs. Temporary signs.
(B) Commercial signs.
(1) Permitted C-1 signs.
(a) An identification sign for each business on site up to 16 square feet in sign area; and
(b) Additional signs up to a total sign area on site of the total of the number of businesses on site multiplied by 16 square feet, plus an additional 16 square feet for the first 500 feet or street frontage, and an additional two square feet in sign area for each additional 100 feet of street frontage.
(2) Permitted C-2 signs.
(a) An identification sign for each business on site up to 32 square feet in sign area; and
(b) Additional signs up to a total sign area on site of the total of the number of businesses on site multiplied by 32 square feet, plus an additional 32 square feet for the first 500 feet of street frontage and an additional two square feet in sign area for each additional 100 feet of street frontage.
(3) Additional signs. Signs for theaters, auditoriums, banquet facilities, hotels, motels, casinos, or related facilities may be erected or maintained contrary to the provisions of this subchapter only upon approval of the site development plan by the Planning Commission with a special use permit.
(C) Industrial signs.
(1) Permitted M-1 signs.
(a) An identification sign for each business on site not exceeding 64 square feet in sign area;
(b) Additional signs up to a total sign area on site of the total of the number of businesses on site multiplied by 64 square feet, plus an additional 64 square feet for the first 500 feet of street frontage and an additional four square feet for each additional 100 feet in street frontage; and
(c) An off-premises sign, in conformance with the criteria set forth herein:
1. Off-premises signs will only be allowed on Cline Ave. (State Road 912) corridor and the State Toll Road (I-90) corridor;
2. No off-premises signs of any kind will be allowed in the following surface street corridors:
a. Indianapolis Blvd.;
b. Chicago Ave.;
c. Railroad Ave.;
d. Kennedy Ave.;
e. Huish Dr.;
f. Euclid Ave.; and
g. Columbus Dr.
3. The maximum number of faces per sign structure shall be two, constructed back to back. No faces shall be installed side-by-side or stacked;
4. The maximum sign area shall be 672 square feet per face. Temporary extensions of copy for artistic purposes, up to 200 additional square feet, may be approved by the City Planner for a period not to exceed 120 days;
5. The maximum height shall be 50 feet, measured from the centerline of the roadway toward which the sign is faced, to the top of the sign structure;
6. The minimum distance between two off-premises signs shall be 2,640 feet measured along the roadway surface in either direction. The separation distance is measured from the center points of the sign posts. If the sign has more than one support, then the separation distance is measured from the center of the lineal dimension of the sign;
7. The minimum distance between an off-premises sign and a platted residential district, school, park, church, or waterfront district shall be 500 feet, measured from the base of the sign to the nearest property line of any residential district, school, park, church, or waterfront district;
8. The minimum setback from the nearest property line for any off-premises signs 50 feet. In addition, no off-premises sign shall project over or onto the right-of-way of any roadway;
9. Lighting of an off-premises sign shall be designed in a manner as to not be or become a nuisance to any residentially-zoned property in the city; and
10. Any pre-application conference filed with the City Planner for an off-premises sign (billboard) will need to include a plat of survey from a registered surveyor to include the proposed sign location on the property, the setback of the sign from the roadway, the legal description of the property and key number, separation measurements from any existing off-premises signs within 3,000 feet, and schools, churches, parks any platted residential districts, and Waterfront Development District within 600 feet.
(2) Permitted M-2 signs.
(a) An identification sign for each business on site not to exceed 96 square feet in sign area;
(b) Additional signs up to a total sign area on site of the total of the number of businesses on site multiplied by 96 square feet, plus an additional 96 square feet for the first 500 feet of street frontage and an additional six square feet in sign area for each additional 100 feet in street frontage; and
(c) An off-premises sign, in conformance with the criteria set forth herein:
1. Off-premises signs will only be allowed on Cline Ave. (State Road 912) corridor and the State Toll Road (I-90) corridor;
2. No off-premises signs of any kind will be allowed in the following surface street corridors:
a. Indianapolis Blvd.;
b. Chicago Ave.;
c. Railroad Ave.;
d. Kennedy Ave.;
e. Huish Dr.;
f. Euclid Ave.; and
g. Columbus Dr.
3. The maximum number of faces per sign structure shall be two, constructed back to back. No faces shall be installed side-by-side or stacked;
4. The maximum sign area shall be 672 square feet per face. Temporary extensions of copy for artistic purposes, up to 200 additional square feet, may be approved by the City Planner for a period not to exceed 120 days;
5. The maximum height shall be 50 feet, measured from the centerline of the roadway toward which the sign is faced, to the top of the sign structure;
6. The minimum distance between two off-premises signs shall be 2,640 feet measured along the roadway surface in either direction. The separation distance is measured from the center points of the sign posts. If the sign has more than one support, then the separation distance is measured from the center of the lineal dimension of the sign;
7. The minimum distance between an off-premises sign and a platted residential district, school, park, church, or waterfront district shall be 500 feet, measured from the base of the sign to the nearest property line of any residential district, school, park, church, or waterfront district;
8. The minimum setback from the nearest property line for any off-premises signs 50 feet. In addition, no off-premises sign shall project over or onto the right-of-way of any roadway;
9. Lighting of an off-premises sign shall be designed in a manner as to not be or become a nuisance to any residentially-zoned property in the city; and
10. Any pre-application conference filed with the City Planner for an off-premises sign (billboard) will need to include a plat of survey from a registered surveyor to include the proposed sign location on the property, the setback of the sign from the roadway, the legal description of the property and key number, separation measurements from any existing off-premises signs within 3,000 feet, and schools, churches, parks, any platted residential districts and Waterfront Development District within 600 feet.
(D) Waterfront development signs. All signs in the Waterfront Development District shall require site development review and a special use permit.
(Prior Code, § 156.361) (Ord. 0-01-0024, passed 9-10-2001) Penalty, see § 156.999