(A) Applicability.
(1) Except as listed below, the owners or developers of 2 or more contiguous lots, or any multi-tenant use shall submit a common signage plan for approval as part of the site plan application. Other applicants may voluntarily submit a common signage plan in accordance with the standards of this section. Such developments may increase the amount of signage otherwise permitted by a maximum amount of 25% subsequent to approval of the common signage plan.
(2) Applications for temporary sign permits shall not be required to submit an approved common signage plan.
(B) Application requirements.
(1) An application for a common signage plan shall be submitted in accordance with § 156.702.
(2) The elements of a common signage plan shall be in accordance with § 156.403.
(3) Where an application for site plan review is also required, the common signage plan shall be submitted concurrently with the site plan (see § 156.707).
(C) Action by Planning Director.
(1) Following completion of the technical review, the Planning Director shall approve the common signage plan provided the plan meets all requirements of this section.
(2) The Planning Director may allow modifications to the lettering style to accommodate state and federally registered trademarks (logos) if the Planning Director feels that the intent of the common signage plan requirements is maintained. In allowing modifications, the Planning Director may limit the logo size. The requirements of a common signage plan shall apply to all tenants within a related project, even if the properties have been subdivided.
(D) Revisions and amendments.
(1) Revisions or amendments to the common signage plan shall require documentation from all tenants on the property prior to approval.
(2) It shall be the responsibility of the applicant and/or property owner to enforce the terms of the common signage plan, and a current copy of such plan, including any amendments, must be kept on file in the Planning Department.
(E) Existing signs not conforming to common signage plan. If any new or amended common signage plan is filed for a property on which existing signs are located, it shall include a schedule for bringing into conformance, within 3 years, all signs not conforming to the proposed amended plan or to the requirements of this chapter in effect on the date of submission.
(F) Binding effect. After approval of a common signage plan, no sign shall be erected, placed, painted, or maintained, except in conformance with such plan, and such plan may be enforced in the same way as any provisions of this chapter. In case of any conflict between the provisions of such a plan and any other provision of this chapter, this chapter shall control.
(G) Appeal. Final action on a common signage plan may be appealed to the Board of Adjustment in accordance with § 156.717.
(Ord. passed 6- -2019)