(a) A sign shall be located on a building wall adjacent to a major street and may be placed on a wall adjacent to a parking area, if there is a direct customer entrance between such street and/or parking area and such building. Any sign permitted at a secondary public entrance to a building shall be limited to six square feet in area. A sign shall not extend higher than the top of the parapet wall of a building or project more than thirty-six inches in front of the established building line. Signs may be permitted on a canopy or awning only in such instances where a wall sign is not practical or possible, and then only with the approval of the Planning Commission. Where two or more adjacent stores on the same parcel have a similar or continuous marquee, canopy, mansard, permanent awning or building face, all signs shall be substantially similar in design and color. All signs shall be limited to three colors, excluding any one background color. For purposes of this section, black and white shall be considered colors.
(Ord. 1995-14. Passed 4-24-95; Ord. 2004-28. Passed 11-8-04.)
(b) In addition to any other type of permitted sign, one free-standing wall per parcel, having a height of not more than five feet and a width of not more than twelve feet, may be erected, with the total sign area not to exceed thirty square feet on each face, provided that planting is placed around such free-standing wall. Unless the sign is used exclusively to identify the building or shopping area, proportionate space shall be made available to more than one tenant on any such sign.
Such wall shall be constructed of either burnt clay brick, stone or precast panels, and/or other suitable materials as approved by the Architectural Board of Review.
Such wall shall be located in front of the setback building line, shall be perpendicular to the public street and shall be at least five feet in back of the dedicated portion of the public street.
In the event that the free-standing (ground) wall sign portrays or includes more than one (1) tenant in the subject parcel, each individual tenant's sign thereon shall be substantially similar in size, shape and color to the others.
All signs shall be limited to three colors, excluding any one background color. For purposes of this section, black and white shall be considered colors.
(c) In U-4 and U-4-A Districts, parcels having more than 400 feet of frontage and containing more than four separate businesses or mercantile occupancies may be permitted to construct one free-standing wall. Such wall shall not be permitted in conjunction with any other wall, nonconforming pole or other sign on the premises. Such wall shall be constructed of either burnt clay brick, stone or precast panels, and/or other suitable materials as approved by the Architectural Board of Review. Walls shall not exceed five feet in height and twenty feet in width. All signs shall be mounted on the wall face and shall not exceed forty-eight square feet per face. Unless the sign is used exclusively to identify the building or the shopping area, proportionate space shall be made available to more than one tenant on any such sign. In no case shall any tenant sign exceed thirty square feet per face.
All walls shall be located in front of the setback building line, shall be perpendicular to the public street and shall be at least five feet in back of the dedicated portion of the public street.
(Ord. 1999-9. Passed 4-12-99.)
(d) In U-4 and U-4-A Districts, lots having detached annex buildings or any free-standing business or mercantile building located in the rear or behind buildings fronting on the main street and located on the same parcel shall be permitted one identification or directional sign. Such sign shall be mounted on a structure of material as outlined for free-standing walls in subsection (c) hereof. Signs shall conform to all other provisions of this chapter and must be approved by the Planning Commission.
The total area of signs permitted on such structure shall not exceed eight square feet.
(e) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 1191.05 and 1191.06(a), (b), (c) and (d), buildings in U-4, U-4-A and U-4-B Use Districts, with customer parking and a customer entrance located in the rear of such buildings, shall be permitted a sign. Any such customer entrance shall provide for unrestricted ingress and egress at the building. In addition, the customer entrance shall be similar in architectural features of glass, show windows, doors and other building materials, and be in substantial proportion to the main entrance.
In addition to the provisions of Section 1191.04, signs shall be permitted to be two square feet in area per linear foot of the rear of such building, but in no case larger than twenty-four square feet in area.
(f) In all zoning districts, except U-1 and U-2 Districts, no directional signs shall be permitted unless the same have been approved by the Planning Commission.
(Ord. 1995-14. Passed 4-24-95; Ord. 2012-21. Passed 1-14-13.)