(A) The following signs and displays do not require the issuance of a sign permit, but must otherwise comply with city code:
(1) Address numbers.
(a) Each commercial, industrial, and public establishment is required to have at least one street number at the main entrance not to exceed 12 inches by six inches wide per digit that is highly contrasting or reflective and readable from the public right-of-way. Street numbers displayed on the building should be a minimum 12 inches per digit and a maximum of 36 square inches per digit.
(b) Residential address numbers must be a minimum of three inches by two inches per digit, highly contrasting or reflective, and placed so they can be easily read at night by headlight from a public right-of-way.
(2) Balloons not exceeding 20 feet in height.
(3) Equipment signs. Signs located on machinery or equipment which are necessary and customary to a business, such as gasoline pumps or vending machines.
(4) Flags that do not exceed 15 square feet.
(5) Government signs installed or maintained pursuant to and in discharge of any government function or required or authorized by law, ordinance, or governmental regulations. This includes but is not limited to street signs, traffic control, and construction signage.
(6) Hand-held signs not exceeding six square feet.
(7) Holiday decorations.
(8) Incidental signs in public places. This refers to signs on facilities located in public places that provide information that is incidental to a sponsored activity, such as a scoreboard or time clock and that comply with city code including the outdoor lighting ordinance.
(9) Private traffic direction signs that are three square feet or less and only indirectly illuminated. Horizontal directional signs on and flush with paved areas are exempt from the limitations of this chapter.
(10) Displays not visible from any public right-of-way.
(11) Small ground signs that are not more than two square feet in area.
(12) Works of art.
(13) Real estate signs with dimensions no greater than 18" x 24" and no taller than four feet located on the parcel of land for sale.
(B) Changeable electronic variable message signs (CEVMS) are exempt from the CSP if they abide by the following information:
(1) They are being used to replace a current sign;
(2) The dimensions of the CEVMS are not larger than that of the sign that they are replacing; and
(3) The existing sign was already approved by the Land Use Administrator.
(Ord. 132, passed 2-13-2012; Am. Ord. 181, passed 3-20-2019; Am. Ord. 208, passed 5-24-2023)