(2) Applicability.

The provisions of this § 14-906 (Market Street East Sign Regulations  988 ) apply to accessory and non- accessory signs not otherwise permitted by this Zoning Code and located in the Market Street East Advertising District, subject to all of the following:  989

(a)   The owner of the property, or a tenant with the owner's authorization, has committed to use the gross proceeds, in whole or in part, from the erection or maintenance of such sign, including but not limited to any lease payments owing to the property owner, to offset the costs of public improvements, so long as the Commission has determined that the public improvements satisfy the criteria of § 14-906(4) (Criteria for Public Improvements).

(b)   The sign shall be located on a property either with 100 ft. or more of frontage on Market Street, or belonging to a contiguous set of buildings under common ownership or management with a collective frontage on Market Street of 100 ft. or more. For the purposes of this subsection (b), two buildings are contiguous to one another if there are no other lots between them, even if there is a street between them.

(c)   The sign shall be located no more than 100 ft. north or south of the lot line on Market Street, but may be located more than 100 ft. north of the lot line on Market Street if located on the north-facing facade of a bridge structure over 9th Street or 10th Street between Market Street and Filbert Street. 990

(d)   Signs on or abutting a parking garage or surface parking lot with frontage on Market Street are exempt from this § 14-906 (Market Street East Sign Regulations 991 ).

 

Notes

988	Revised by Code editor to conform to section's caption.
989	Amended, Bill No. 150379 (approved June 18, 2015).
990	Amended, Bill No. 180979 (approved January 3, 2019).
991	Revised by Code editor to conform to section's caption.