(a) As used in this Chapter:
Approved combustible material: Wood or materials not more combustible than wood, and approved combustible plastics.
Approved combustible plastics: Only those plastics which, when tested in accordance with the American Society for Testing Materials (A.S.T.M.) standard method for testing flammability of plastics over five hundredths (0.050) inch in thickness (D635-44), burn no faster than two and one-half (2.5) inches per minute in sheets of six hundredths (0.060) inch thickness.
Banner: Any sign printed or displayed upon cloth or other pliable material.
Billboard or off-premises sign: Any permanent sign and related structure advertising, or intended to advertise an establishment, merchandise, event, service, or entertainment that is not sold, produced, manufactured or furnished at the property on which the sign is located.
Electronic Message Centers: A sign or portion thereof that is capable of displaying words, symbols, figures or images that can be electronically changed by remote or automatic means.
Electronic changeable copy sign: A sign or portion thereof on which the copy or symbols change either automatically through electrical or electronic means (for example, time and temperature units), or manually through placement of letters or symbols on a panel mounted in or on a track system.
Ground sign: A sign supported by one (1) or more poles, uprights or braces in or upon the ground, which are not a part of the building.
Illuminated boxed wall sign: An internally illuminated sign within a boxed frame with a single panel face as opposed to individually illuminated letters.
Instructional sign: A sign clearly intended for instructional purposes which shall be determined by the Zoning Administrator. The sign shall be exempt from the sign area of wall, ground and window signs, provided that such a sign is not larger than necessary to serve the intended instructional purpose, and such a sign is not in a location, nor includes design characteristics, that constitute or serve the purposes of a wall, ground and window sign as otherwise regulated in this Chapter.
Portable sign: Any sign not securely anchored in or to the ground or a building, and includes, but is not limited to, any sign mounted on wheels, casters or rollers or otherwise constructed so as to be readily movable from place to place.
Projecting sign: A sign which projects from and is supported by a wall or parapet of a building with the display surface of the sign in a plane perpendicular to or approximately perpendicular to the wall.
Roof sign: A sign erected upon or extending above a roof or above the parapet of a building.
Shopping center: A place built and intended to be used for retail shops, department stores, restaurants and other allied businesses and consisting of at least forty-three thousand five hundred sixty (43,560) square feet of area, including all buildings, parking and required green space.
Shopping center banner: A banner mounted on a light pole on the property of a shopping center in a designated parking lot, and framed on at least two (2) sides.
Sign: Every sign, ground sign, wall sign, temporary sign, pylon or pole sign, marquee, awning, canopy and street clock, that includes any announcement, declaration, demonstration,
display, illustration or insignia used to advertise or promote the interests of any person when the same is placed outside of doors in view of the general public.
Single window: All the glass area that has not less than a four (4)-inch separation from other glass areas.
Structural trim: The molding battens, cappings, nailing strips, latticing, platforms and letters, figures, characters or representations in cut-out or irregular form which are attached to the sign structure.
Temporary sign: A sign of any size or material which advertises an offering or an interest of limited duration, including, but not limited to, signs advertising a political candidacy or issue, a special sale of goods or services and signs offering the property upon which they are posted for sale or lease.
Vehicle sign: A vehicle sign shall be considered to be used for the primary purpose of advertising if the vehicle fails to display current license plates, if the vehicle is inoperable, or if the vehicle is parked continuously in one location for a period of seven consecutive days to be used as additional signage. Vehicle signs include those attached to or placed on a vehicle or trailer. This does not apply to a vehicle parked at a driver’s residence and is the primary means of transportation to and from the resident’s workplace.
Wall sign: A sign attached to or erected against the wall of a building or structure, with the exposed face of the sign in a plane approximately parallel to the plane of such wall or placed on the wall as a projecting sign as defined in this Section.
Window sign: Any sign painted on, attached or affixed to the interior or exterior surface of windows or doors of a building or placed within two (2) feet of the window with the intention to be seen through a window or door. However, window signs shall not include lettering and logos (not attached to the window) that are clearly related and accessory to window displays of merchandise sold on the premise.
(Ord. 2010-059. Passed 3-7-11; Ord. 2020-037. Passed 7-13- 20.)