A. Specified: Each property, lot or parcel of record within any commercial or industrial zoning district of the city is permitted the following:
1. One freestanding sign on each street frontage, except that a gasoline service station may have one additional trade name or pricing sign if the premises has only one street frontage and except that an automotive dealership may have one sign for each new car dealership. Frontage along a freeway or interstate highway is not considered street frontage.
2. Directional or instructional signs which do not advertise a business, other than the business logo but which identify restrooms, public telephones, walkways or signs providing direction, such as parking lot entrances and exit signs and those of a similar nature. Directional signs are limited to one sign per driveway approach and shall not exceed an area of six (6) square feet.
3. Off premise signs shall observe a minimum separation distance of six hundred feet (600').
B. Sign Height:
1. The maximum height of a freestanding sign shall be twenty five feet (25') if located on property abutting a street right of way having a twenty five (25) mile per hour or less speed limit.
2. The maximum height of a freestanding sign shall be thirty five feet (35') if located on property abutting a street right of way having a speed limit greater than twenty five (25) miles per hour.
3. The maximum height of a freestanding sign shall be forty five feet (45') if located on property within one hundred feet (100') of the Interstate Route 80 right of way.
C. Sign Area:
1. The maximum area of a freestanding sign shall be two (2) square feet of sign area for every one linear foot of building frontage facing the adjacent street.
2. The maximum sign area of a freestanding sign proposed on vacant, undeveloped land shall be one square foot for every one foot (1') of property frontage along the adjacent street.
D. Nonpermitted Freestanding Signs: Freestanding signs, other than exempted signs and signs authorized as part of an approval of a conditional use permit for a medical office use, professional office use, multi-family residential use or similar conditional use, are not permitted in any residential zoning district. (Ord. 608, 10-28-2003)