(A) The following types of signs shall be allowed or permitted in the C-1, C-2 and C-3 Commercial Districts when the advertising on same is for the business or activity being conducted on the premises, including time and temperature signs.
(B) Outdoor advertising signs (OASs) shall be permitted pursuant to § 152.074 and the table called “outdoor advertising signs”.
(C) No business shall be permitted to have more than three permitted signs which are visible to the public from a public street or from a parking area serving one business, with the exception of on-premises directional signs.
(D) The standards for each type of sign allowed in commercial districts shall be as follows.
(1) On-premises freestanding signs.
(a) Maximum number of signs: two signs per business. Each business is permitted one sign per business frontage (see figures in Appendix A); except that no freestanding sign is permitted if a projecting or roof sign exists on the same frontage.
(b) Maximum area of sign: 32 square feet in C-1; 50 square feet in C-2 and C-3.
(c) Maximum height of sign: 15 feet in C-1; 20 feet in C-2 and C-3.
(d) Unless any freestanding sign has a minimum clearance of eight feet above ground, the area surrounding the base of any sign shall be maintained as a green area of not less than 100 square feet and planted in grass, shrubs or plants.
(e) Location of sign: no freestanding signs shall be permitted within 50 feet of any residential district where the nearest lot contains a dwelling unit, school, park, church, hospital or nursing home.
(2) On-premises wall signs and wall mounted signs.
(a) Maximum number of signs: no more than three per wall, but must meet area limit below.
(b) Maximum area of signs: total area of signs on one wall shall not exceed 10% of that wall’s area and total aggregate area of signs on walls shall not exceed 150 square feet in C-1, and 175 square feet in C-2 and C-3. However, for every 100 feet the sign is located away from the right-of-way line of an adjacent street, the total aggregate sign area may increase by 10% (measured from the sign to the right-of-way line).
(c) Maximum height and location. Signs shall not extend beyond the top or ends of the wall surface on which they are placed.
(3) On-premises projecting signs.
(a) Maximum number signs: one sign per business frontage, except that no projecting sign is permitted if a freestanding or roof sign exists on the same frontage. Upper level businesses are not allowed projecting signs.
(b) Maximum area of signs: 15 square feet in C-1; 20 square feet in C-2 and C-3.
(c) Maximum height of signs: eight feet shall be the minimum clearance above ground and the sign shall not extend above that portion of the roof immediately adjacent to the sign.
(d) Location of the signs: to be permitted only in the older Main and Oak Street areas of the village. No sign shall project more than three and a half feet from the face of the building to which it is attached or extend over any public right-of-way.
(4) On-premises roof signs.
(a) Maximum number of signs: one sign per premises, except no roof sign is permitted if a freestanding sign or projecting sign exists on the same frontage.
(b) Maximum area of signs: 50 square feet in C-2 and C-3 Districts, not permitted in C-1.
(c) Maximum height of signs: nine feet, as measured from that part of the roof immediately below the sign, but in no case shall the height exceed the maximum height authorized in the zoning district.
(d) Location of signs: sign must be located wholly within the roof area of structure.
(5) Signs attached to or part of canopies, awnings and entrance structures.
(a) Maximum number of signs: one sign per business frontage.
(b) Maximum area of signs: 15 square feet in C-1, 20 square feet in C-2 and C-3, provided, however, that if the sign is the only sign for the business, then the maximum area for the sign may be increased up to a maximum area of no more than 30% of the total area of any canopy, awning or entrance structure if the writing, representation, emblem, or other figure of similar character constituting the display of the sign is an integral part of any canopy, awning or entrance structure. Any display shall be deemed an integral part of the canopy, awning or entrance structure if the display does not project more than one-half inch from any canopy, awning or entrance structure.
(c) Height of signs: eight-foot minimum clearance to ground.
(d) Location of signs: no sign may project more than two feet from any canopy, or awning or other structure.
(e) A canopy or awning may extend within the limits of the right-of-way by a distance not to exceed 12 feet. A canopy or awning may not extend closer than six inches from the back of the curb or edge of the pavement, whichever case applies.
(7) Signs directed toward users of interstate highway.
(a) Maximum number of signs: one sign per location-eligible business.
(b) Maximum area of signs: 220 square feet per face with a maximum number of faces being limited to two per sign.
(c) Height of signs: not greater than 80 feet, and all signage shall be positioned on the structure so that the lowest point of any sign face shall have a height of not less than 50 feet as measured from the ground.
(d) Location of signs: signs shall be directed primarily toward the users of an interstate highway and shall be located within 600 feet of the right-of-way of the interstate highway and more than 150 feet from any residential zoning district (in residential use), school, park, church, hospital or nursing home.
(e) Use of signs: signs shall be limited to on-premises uses only.
(8) Freestanding shopping center signs.
(a) Maximum number of signs: one sign per lot frontage per shopping center.
(b) Maximum area of signs: establishments which are part of a recognized and identifiable shopping center complex in the commercial districts may have individual store identification signs on shopping center’s freestanding sign(s) not to exceed one square foot per lineal foot of establishment frontage. Shopping center identification signs may not exceed 75 square feet in the C-1 District and 150 square feet in the C-2 and C-3 Districts.
(c) Maximum height of signs: 30 feet to setback line plus one additional foot per two feet additional setback thereafter; up to 40 feet maximum.
(d) Location of signs: no freestanding signs permitted within 50 feet of any residential district where the nearest lot contains a dwelling unit, school, park, hospital or nursing home.
(10) Subdivision/commercial development identity sign. Signs announcing the name of a commercial subdivision or development shall conform to the following requirements.
(a) Maximum number of signs: one sign per street bordering or entering the subdivision, or two signs if framed as a symmetrical “gateway” to the subdivision.
(b) Maximum area of sign: 75 square feet (not including structures); and
(c) Maximum height of sign: ten feet.
(11) Street clock/temperature signs. Any sign which displays the time or outdoor temperature or both, and which displays no other matter other than the business name. Allowed in commercial and industrial districts only. See sign type (freestanding, wall and the like) for regulations.
(Ord. passed 7-23-2002; Ord. 17-09-02, passed 9-26-2017)