In B-5 and B-6, Shopping Center Business Districts, exterior business and nameplate signs are permitted subject to the following regulations.
(A) Shopping centers shall be permitted pylon or ground identification signs as follows.
(1) B-5, Neighborhood Shopping Centers, shall be permitted the signs not to exceed 80 square feet in surface area, 55 feet in height and located on the shopping center property; provided that, each center shall be limited to one sign per major thoroughfare approach to the center. The signs may be illuminated.
(2) B-6, Sub-Regional Shopping Center, shall be permitted the signs not to exceed 200 square feet each in surface area, 55 feet in height and located (in the shopping center property); provided that, each center shall be limited to one sign per major thoroughfare approach to the center. The signs may be illuminated.
(3) Signs shall be limited to flat wall signs which shall not extend more than 18 inches from the face of the buildings. The business signs shall not exceed 20% of the building facing, nor shall two or more smaller signs be so arranged and integrated as to create a surface area in excess of these requirements. The signs may be illuminated.
(B) Advertising signs (billboards) shall not be erected within a developed integrated shopping center property.
(C) Rotating and flashing signs, not characterized as an electronic message center (EMC), shall be permitted in the B-5 and B-6, Shopping Center Business Districts, by conditional use permit only.
(2002 Code, § 7.40) (Ord. 324, effective 11-20-1965; Ord. 106, Second Series, effective 3-15-1977; Ord. 156, Second Series, effective 1-1-1979; Ord. 9, Third Series, effective 7-15-1979; Ord. 123, Sixth Series, effective 8-26-2010; Ord. 146, Sixth Series, effective 5-25-2013; Ord. 150, Sixth Series, effective 7-20-2013; Ord. 14, Seventh Series, effective 9-20-2014) Penalty, see § 154.999