The following signs requiring a permit are allowed as indicated in the following table. All signs shall be located on-premises of the business or use being advertised unless otherwise specified.
PERMITTED SIGNS
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Sign Type | Districts Allowed1 | Number Allowed2 | Maximum Size2 |
Conditions |
PERMITTED SIGNS
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Sign Type | Districts Allowed1 | Number Allowed2 | Maximum Size2 |
Conditions |
Bed and Breakfast | All | 1 | 6 sq. ft. | (a) May not be illuminated. (b) Must be set back not less than 5 feet from street r-o-w. |
Business Identification - Monument | All | 1 | 32
sq. ft. | (a) Not allowed in conjunction with a single-family use. (b) Largest dimension of sign area shall not exceed 8 feet. |
Business Identification - Pole | LC, GC, IND | 1 | 200 sq. ft. | Must be set back not less than 10 feet from street r-o-w. |
Changeable Copy | R2, LC, GC, IND | 1 per sign face, may not exceed 1 per street frontage | 50 sq. ft. | (a) Permitted only on permanent freestanding signs, marquee signs, canopy signs and wall signs, and shall comply with all of the regulations of such signs as applicable. (b) See § 153.219 for requirements for changeable copy by electronic or automated mean. |
Construction, including alteration and demolition | All | 1 | 100 sq. ft. | (a) May not be illuminated. (b) The sign shall be removed from the site within 30 days after completion of the project. |
Institutional and Public Facility | All | 1 | 20 sq. ft. | May not be illuminated. |
Neighborhood, Manufactured Home Park, Industrial Park Identification | All (as applicable) | 1 per entrance | 20 sq. ft. | (a) Signs may be located partially or wholly within the street r-o-w on islands at split entrances as approved by the Public Works Director or SCDOT where required prior to issuance of a permit. (b) The County shall not be responsible for the repair or replacement of such signs regardless of why or how they are damaged or removed including but not limited to traffic accidents, vandalism, street repair, mowing, or resurfacing, and acts of God. (c) The County may remove any such sign at any time for any reason without notice and without compensation. |
Off-premises Advertising | R2, LC, GC, IND | Regulated by spacing and setback requirements | (a) On I-26: 672 sq. ft. with embellish ments not to exceed 150 square feet. (b) On all other road ways: maximum size shall be 300 sq. ft. | (a) Construction. All signs with a 32-square foot or more sign face shall be of mono-pole construction. (b) Spacing. All signs shall be at least 1,200 feet apart on the same side of the road and 600 feet from the opposite side of the road, measured linearly along the rights-of-way. (c) Configuration. Signs on I-26 may be double decked and double sided. On all other streets, signs may be double sided only. (d) Setbacks. Setback from I-26 may be as required by SCDOT. From adjacent property lines, setback shall be 10 feet measured from the outside edge of the sign. From a residential district boundary or an existing adjacent residence on the same side of the road, minimum setback shall be 100 feet. (e) Height. On I-26, maximum height shall be 110 feet. On all other roads maximum height shall be 40 feet. Advertising space shall be at least 20 feet from ground level for signs greater than 32 square feet in area. |
Private Directional | All | 1 | 6 sq. ft. | Must be spaced not less than 500 feet apart. |
Professional or Business Name Plate | All | 1 | 2 sq. ft. | (a) Must be mounted flat against the wall of the building where the business is located. (b) May not be illuminated. |
Projecting | LC, GC | 1 per street frontage | 10 sq. ft. | (a) Minimum clearance of 8 feet is required between the bottom of the sign and the sidewalk, pavement or ground surface. (b) Maximum distance a sign shall project from a building is 4 feet. However, no sign shall project from the building wall to an extent that it obstructs the view of pedestrians, cyclists or motorists, or of street intersections, traffic signs, devices or signals. (c) Signs shall not be mounted higher than 12 feet. (d) Signs shall be mounted at a right angle to the building wall. |
Rooftop | IN D | 2 | 675 sq. ft. | (a) Rooftop signs may be permitted only on buildings that are visible from Federal Interstate Highways. (b) Sign must reach a height of no more than 30 feet above the highest point on rooftop on which it is installed, but no higher than 110 feet from the ground level of the building. |
Temporary Land Subdivision | All | 1 per street frontage | 20 sq. ft. | (a) May not be illuminated. (b) Must be spaced not less than 300 feet apart. (c) Must be removed when 75% of the lots are conveyed. |
Wall | All | 2 per building frontage | Shall not exceed 20% of the front surface of 25% of the side or rear surface | Surface mounted signs may extend not more than 24 inches from the wall. |
1 Signs in LC, GC and IND districts shall be setback at least 15 feet from all interior lot lines. 2 On a lot occupied by a business use, signs shall be limited to not more than 4 signs of any type having a total area of not more than 600 square feet in area. Sign area not exceeding a total of 750 square feet may be granted as a special exception by the Board of Zoning Appeals. | ||||
Sign Types*
* Definitions for Sign Types are provided in §§ 153.230 et seq. - Definitions. Source: Harvey S. Moskowitz and Carl G. Lindbloom. The Latest Illustrated Book of Development Definitions, Center for Urban Policy Research, 2004.
(Ord. 06-11-16, passed 9-21-2016; Am. Ord. 12-23-18, passed 2-6-2019)