A. Purpose: The purpose of this chapter is to maintain or improve the aesthetic quality of the county's agricultural, residential and business environment, to promote traffic safety through the regulation of the design, placement, quality of materials, construction, location, electrification, illumination and maintenance of all signs visible from public property, public rights of way, and private areas open to public vehicular traffic.
B. Scope: Signs are structures, rigid panels or fabrics which are regulated as different types of land uses dependent upon factors including general types of message, size and location. Billboards, marquees and some types of temporary or manually changeable copy signs are recognized as types of land use that serve a general advertising purpose rather than the identification and directional purpose of the majority of signs regulated by this chapter. These regulations are not intended to, and do not, dictate or limit the content of those signs allowed for general advertising purposes except those that may carry an obscene message or may provide an illegal product or action.
C. Sign Regulation: Except for a type 1 or type 2 sign, no sign shall hereafter be erected, moved or structurally altered without a zoning permit, and without being in conformity with the provisions of this chapter. Official signs of the state, county or municipalities are exempt from all provisions of this chapter. All signs shall be on the same lot as the subject matter of the sign, except as specifically allowed otherwise. Permitted signs in the various zones are indicated by the following tables (see section 6-7-2, "Types Of Signs", of this chapter):
Zone | Types Of Signs Permitted |
Zone | Types Of Signs Permitted |
EFU | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
ERU | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
EFFU | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
R-1 | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
R-2 | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
RSC | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10 |
C-1 | 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 |
M-1 | 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 |
M-2 | 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 |
PM | 2, 3, 4 |
(Ord. 86, 12-7-1993)