(a) Permitted Locations. Off-premises signs are allowed in business, commercial, manufacturing, agricultural and flood plain zoned areas.
(b) Size. No off-premises sign may be erected which exceeds 672 square feet in area, fourteen feet in height and forty-eight feet in length. This includes border and trim, but excludes an ornamental base or apron, supports and other structural members. The maximum size limitation shall apply to each side of a sign or sign structure. A maximum of two signs may be erected in a facing, in which event the facing shall be deemed to be one sign, and the size of the facing may not exceed the dimensions listed above. Signs may be doubled-faced, placed back to back or V-type in which the maximum angle of the two facings shall not exceed forty-five degrees. The area shall be measured by the smallest square, rectangle, triangle, circle or combination thereof which will encompass the entire sign.
(c) Lighting.
(1) No sign may be erected or maintained which is not effectively shielded, as to prevent beams or rays of light from being directed at any portion of the traveled way, or which is of such intensity or brilliance as to cause glare or to impair the vision of the driver of any motor vehicle.
(d) Spacing. No off-premises sign twelve feet by twenty-five feet or less in size may be erected within 100 feet of an existing off-premises sign of any size or of an existing off-premises sign structure, located on the same side of the right of way and facing in the same direction. No off-premises sign larger than twelve feet by twenty-five feet in size may be erected within 200 feet of an existing off-premises sign of any size or of an existing off-premises sign structure, located on the same side of the right of way and facing in the same direction. A sign structure may have one or two facings with a maximum of two signs per facing. Back to back and side to side signs or V-type signs, in which the maximum angle of the facings shall be forty-five degrees, shall be treated as a single-sign structure. The foregoing requirements on spacing between structures shall not apply to structures which are separated or screened by buildings, natural surroundings or other obstructions if only one sign facing located within such distance is visible at any one time. No off-premises sign shall be placed, erected or maintained within 150 feet from the boundary line of a park or of a residential district.
(1977 Code §§ 59-601 to 59-605; Ord. 78-29. Passed 4-17-78; Ord. 2018-52. Passed 11-5-18.)