(A) Noncommercial, off-premises, freestanding signs, not exceeding a cumulative total of ten square feet, for governmental, religious, educational or other institutional agencies approved by the City Council;
(B) Any public notice or warning required by any federal, state or local law, regulation or ordinance;
(C) Signs erected by or for a governmental body to direct or regulate pedestrian or vehicular traffic, identify public property or convey public information;
(D) Traffic control signs, not exceeding 12 square feet per driveway entrance, on private property, containing no commercial message other than the name or logo of a business or facility on the property;
(E) Informational signs of utility and pipeline companies primarily providing for location, caution, and warning concerning lines, facilities and appurtenances;
(F) Memorial signs or tablets and building markers displayed on public or private buildings and lands;
(G) Bus stop signs that contain no commercial message;
(H) Street and mailbox addresses related to the referenced structure or appurtenances and which contain no commercial message;
(I) Temporary construction site signs not exceeding six square feet per street frontage of each lot, or 32 square feet per entrance to a new subdivision containing more than ten lots, for single-family or duplex construction, and 32 square feet for all other uses, per lot. All such signs shall be removed within seven days following completion of the construction;
(J) A sign that contains primarily a political message and that is located on private real property with the consent of the property owner, if the sign is 36 square feet or less in area and eight feet or less in height, is not illuminated, and contains no moving elements;
(K) Real estate signs not exceeding six square feet for single-family, manufactured home or duplex dwellings, or 32 square feet for all other uses, per lot or structure or portion of structure for sale or lease. The signs shall be removed within 15 days after the sale or lease is completed;
(L) One or more temporary attached and/or low profile freestanding signs, including banner signs, not exceeding a total of 32 square feet aggregate sign area on the premises of a homebuilder's sales office within a new residential subdivision. The signs shall be removed upon disconnection of electric service for the building, or upon discontinued occupancy of the building as a sales office for 30 consecutive calendar days, whichever occurs first;
(M) "Garage sale" signs that do not exceed a total area of four square feet on the site of the sale, with no more than four signs directing the public to the sale site, and displayed only during actual sale hours. No signs will remain on display to the public for more than 72 continuous hours;
(N) Signs on private property not exceeding one square foot in area. There shall be no more than one such sign per 100 linear feet of property line;
(O) Works of art which do not include any commercial message;
(P) Temporary lights and decorations containing no commercial message and customarily associated with any national, state, local or religious holiday;
(Q) Banners suspended over streets or temporary signs on public rights-of-way or public or private property, advertising noncommercial special events and festivities of general public interest, and sponsored by governmental, educational, religious, civic or nonprofit groups, for a period not to exceed 30 days, and subject to approval by the City Council;
(R) Estate sale signs, which advertise liquidation of an estate by a business entity normally in the business of liquidating estates, under the following limitations:
(1) No more than four signs directing the public to the sale site;
(2) No sign exceeding six square feet;
(3) No sign to remain on display to the public for more than 72 continuous hours; and
(4) No sign to be placed on any public right-of-way.
(S) One permanent non-illuminated sign not exceeding two square feet per residential dwelling unit or business occupancy;
(T) One temporary sign not connected to any source of electrical power, not exceeding six square feet per residential dwelling unit or business occupancy, and displayed for no more than 120 days in any calendar year, that contains only a noncommercial message celebrating a birthday, personal achievement, school spirit and the like;
(U) Signs on vending machines, gasoline pumps and amusement equipment pertaining to the function of the facilities;
(V) Non-illuminated on-premise signs not exceeding a cumulative total of 32 square feet in area on trailers or portable buildings containing an accessory use temporarily located on the premises of a nonresidential use, provided that the signs pertain to the use of the trailer or portable building;
(W) Temporary window displays consisting of merchandise or posters in nonresidential districts;
(X) Flags not exceeding 48 square feet per side; and
(Y) Signs that are not visible from a public street or that are on an indoor wall visible through a window from a public street and which are at least 12 inches from the window.
(Ord. 08-342, passed 3-4-2008)