All signs hereafter erected or maintained, except official, traffic and street signs, shall conform with the provisions of this section, and any other ordinance or regulations of the city.
(A) General sign provisions. The following regulations shall apply to all signs hereinafter permitted in all districts.
(1) Illuminated signs giving off intermittent or rotating beams shall not be permitted in any district.
(2) No sign shall project more than 48 inches over a public sidewalk, except that the City Council may, after a report from the Planning Commission, grant a conditional use permit for temporary signs and decorations to be strung across the right-of-way.
(3) No sign shall be placed that resembles any official marker erected by a governmental agency or display such words as “Stop” or “Danger”.
(4) No sign shall be permitted to obstruct any window, door, fire escape, stairway or opening intended to provide light, air, ingress or egress for any building or structure.
(5) The owner, lessee or manager of a ground sign, and the owner of the land on which the same is located, shall keep grass or weeds and other growth cut and debris and rubbish cleaned up and removed from the lot on which sign is located.
(6) Advertising signs, business signs and name plate signs which may be or may hereafter become unsafe or in a condition of disrepair shall be repaired or removed by the owner, or owner of the property upon which the sign stands, upon notice of the City Council.
(7) Where a sign is illuminated, the source of light shall not shine directly upon any part of a residence in any of the classes of residence districts.
(B) Signs in R-1 Agriculture Residence Districts, R-2 Single-Family Residence Districts and R-3 Multiple-Family Residence Districts. In any class of residence district, no business sign, name plate sign or advertising sign shall be erected except the following:
(1) A name plate sign, or professional name plate sign, identifying the owner or occupant of a building or dwelling unit, provided the surface area does not exceed two square feet;
(2) A sign pertaining to the lease or sale of a building or property, provided the sign shall not exceed 12 square feet in surface area and shall not be illuminated;
(3) Temporary unilluminated signs identifying an engineer, architect, contractor or product engaged in or used in the construction of a building, provided the signs shall not exceed 12 square feet each in surface area, and are no more than 15 feet in height, and provided the signs are removed prior to occupancy of the building;
(4) One identification sign, not to exceed 30 square feet in area, for the following uses: church, school, hospital, sanitarium, club, library or similar uses. These signs shall be solely for the purpose of displaying the name of the institution and its activities or services. It may be illuminated but not flashing; and
(5) Directional signs in any parking area necessary for the orderly movement of traffic, provided that the sign shall not be used as advertising space and shall not be illuminated.
(C) Signs in B-1 Limited Business Districts, B-2 Central Business Districts, I-1 General Industry Districts and I-2 Limited Industry Districts. In Limited and General Business Districts, General and Limited Industry Districts, business signs, advertising signs and name plate signs are permitted subject to the following regulations:
(1) Signs as permitted and regulated in division (B) above;
(2) Business signs, the total surface area of all business signs on a lot shall not exceed the sum of two square feet per lineal foot of lot frontages. No single business sign surface shall exceed 75 square feet in area;
(3) Advertising signs (billboards); advertising sign structures shall be limited to not more than one for a lot of 100 foot frontage or less and to only one per each additional 100 feet of additional lot frontage. The structure may not contain more than two signs per facing nor exceed 55 feet in total length. No advertising sign shall be erected within 50 feet of an adjoining residential district; and
(4) No sign shall project higher than 30 feet above average grade at the building line.
(Ord. 266, passed 5- -2008; Ord. 295, passed 2-1-2016)