Signs permitted in a residential and conservancy district include:
(b) Legal nonconforming uses, including home occupations, may display signs pertaining to the use of the property, having an aggregate total face area of not more than six (6) square feet, which sign shall be attached to the building.
(c) Permitted nonresidential principal uses are allowed signage not exceeding fifteen (15) square feet located on the premises of the use.
(d) Manufactured home parks may display one (1) sign not exceeding twenty-five (25) square feet in area and located on the premises.
(e) All bed and breakfast homestays are permitted one (1) unlighted three (3) square foot sign attached to and parallel to the front wall of the building. Such sign is designed to identify rather than advertise.
(f) Bed and breakfast inns located in business districts are permitted signage in accordance with the sign requirements for that district. Bed and breakfast inns located in an R-3 District shall meet the requirements of subsection (b)(6) in Section 1149.02: Zoning Certificate Required; Exemptions.
(g) Changeable copy/Electronic Message Centers for conditional uses with the following stipulations:
(1) Up to twenty-four (24) square feet of a permitted monument sign may be a changeable copy/electronic message center.
(2) The electronic messages shall be static and can only change once every five (5) seconds.
(3) The electronic message center shall come equipped with an automatic dimming photocell, which automatically adjusts the display’s brightness based on ambient light conditions.
(4) The brightness level shall not increase by more than 0.3 foot candles (or 3.23 lumens per square meter or lux) (over ambient levels) as measured using a foot candle meter at a pre-set distance.
(5) The procedure and distances for measurements of brightness shall be established by the International Sign Association’s “Recommended Night-time Brightness Levels for On-premise Electronic Message Centers.”
(6) The owners of such signs shall include a signed letter accompanying their zoning certificate application, certifying that they will comply with the prescribed brightness limitations set by this Zoning Ordinance.
(7) All electronic message centers shall contain a default mechanism that will cause the sign to revert immediately to a black screen if the sign malfunctions.
(8) No electronic message center shall be permitted within 100 feet of and facing the front lot line of a residentially zoned lot.
(9) Such signs shall be accessory in use and the display messages shall only include activities that occur on the premises and not advertise or promote off-site businesses, products or services.
(Ord. 2020-4053. Passed 1-7-21.)