(A) In a business or industrial district, each business or industry shall be permitted one wall sign for each 40 feet of the building facing a public street.
(B) The total area of a wall sign(s) for any single business or industrial enterprise shall not exceed three square feet per lineal foot of building facing a street with a maximum of 120 square feet each.
(C) Wall signs shall not extend into any street, sidewalk, alley or public thoroughfare for a distance greater than 12 inches, shall have at least nine feet clearance between the lower edge of the sign and the ground and fourteen and one-half feet clearance over any area used by motor vehicles.
(D) Wall signs made of glass shall not exceed twelve square feet when double strength glass is used and forty square feet when plate or wired glass is used.
(E) No wall sign shall be so erected as to cover the doors or windows of any building, or otherwise prevent free ingress and egress from any window, door or fire escape of any building.
(F) Each wall sign erected, hung or suspended or permitted under the terms of this chapter shall be securely fastened to a building or other structure upon the premises owned or occupied by the applicant and amply supported vertically and horizontally to prevent falling from its own weight or from wind pressure, and to prevent the same from becoming a hazard to persons using the public street or sidewalk in the vicinity of the sign. No sign as herein referred to, shall be suspended from or supported by a cornice or coping but shall be anchored to the supporting walls of the building.
(`94 Code, § 1179.06) (Ord. 4-93, passed 2-9-92) Penalty, see § 154.999