(A) No commercial sign shall be erected, constructed, placed or replaced unless it is permitted in the zoning district.
(B) (1) One commercial sign shall be permitted for each lot as defined herein, not to exceed the limits as defined in this chapter.
(2) An additional commercial sign shall be permitted where lineal foot frontage on a single street exceeds 200 feet, on the basis of one additional sign for each additional 200 feet or part thereof.
(C) Except as provided below, the total display surface area shall not exceed three square feet for each one foot of lineal foot frontage; provided that, in no case shall the total display area exceed 1,240 square feet.
(D) (1) Where an individual or aggregate use abuts a controlled access expressway and the lineal foot frontage of the use is under 100 feet, a commercial sign may have 200 square feet of display surface area for better identification of the use from the controlled access expressway.
(2) All other regulations of this chapter shall apply.
(E) Except as provided in the following, the maximum height of the highest point of any commercial sign shall be 40 feet measured from the grade level of the ground surface in which the sign structure is placed.
(F) Where the lineal foot frontage of an aggregate commercial or industrial use exceeds 300 feet, the height of the highest point of a commercial sign may be increased one foot for each 40 additional feet of lineal foot frontage over 300 feet to a maximum height of 50 feet.
(G) (1) Where a commercial or industrial use abuts a controlled access expressway and the lineal foot frontage does not comply with the provisions of this section, a commercial sign may be constructed on the controlled access expressway frontage to a height not to exceed 50 feet, in order to provide better identification of the use from the controlled access expressway.
(2) All other regulations of this chapter shall apply.
(H) Commercial signs shall have no minimum height requirement, except there shall be a minimum bottom of sign clearance above any traffic way or parking lot of 14 feet. No sign shall be erected which constitutes an obstruction to view of operators of motor vehicles on public streets or entering the streets from private property. The portion of the support structure below the permitted display surface area shall be kept free of all advertising copy, banners and lights, whether of a temporary or permanent nature.
(I) No commercial sign shall be erected, constructed, placed or replaced closer than 50 feet to the nearest property line of residentially-zoned property.
(2002 Code, § 155.23) (Ord. 348, passed 4-8-1996; Ord. 492, passed 4-29-2003; Ord. 953, passed 11-13-2023)