(A) For the purpose of this provision, a community or regional shopping center shall be a shopping center having a total leasable area of more than 75,000 square feet in which the majority of the tenant spaces are located more than 250 feet from the street right-of-way.
(B) Any shopping center qualifying as a community or regional shopping center hereunder may erect a monument having a maximum height of 25 feet above grade on the property of the shopping center, which shall be so located as not to obstruct the view for exiting the shopping center and composed of stone, masonry, plastic masonry or such other materials as are deemed consistent with the shopping center improvements, on which individual signs may be placed in accordance with the following standards:
(1) Maximum total sign area of all such signs: 125 square feet, per face subject to division (B)(5) below.
(2) Minimum sign letter size: eight inches.
(3) The background of each such sign shall be compatible with the background of all other signs on the monument.
(4) The total area of all of the signs located on the monument shall not exceed 65% of the total area of the monument. In making the determination, the area of each sign shall be calculated on the basis of the total area of the background of each sign.
(5) The content of the signs shall be limited to the name of the shopping center and the name of the occupants of the shopping center.
(C) Any shopping center qualifying as a community or regional shopping center hereunder located within 1,000 feet of an interstate highway interchange may erect a pole sign in addition to the signage provided for in Section division (B) above. The pole sign shall be designed in accordance with the provisions of § 155.41, except that the following may be permitted:
(1) The total area shall not exceed 75 square feet per face.
(2) The maximum height shall not exceed 100 feet:
(3) The sign may be located on property that is not part of the principal shopping center site; however, the property must be in private ownership, cannot be zoned for single or multi-family residential use and must be contiguous to or within 200 feet of the principal community or regional shopping center site.
(4) The sign cannot be placed closer than 500 feet to any property line for parcels that are zoned single-family or multi-family residential.
(Ord. 2002-09, passed 4-3-02) Penalty, see § 10.99