Signs permitted by zone district are listed as follows:
A. Residential Zone Districts: Unlighted signs and other commercial advertising shall be permitted in residential districts only as provided in this section.
1. Nameplates shall be permitted subject to the following conditions:
a. Maximum size: Two (2) square feet.
b. Content: Nameplates may display the following information:
(1) Name of the premises upon which it is displayed;
(2) Name of the owner or lessee of the premises;
(3) Address of the premises.
c. Placement: Nameplates shall be affixed flush to the subject building.
2. "For rent" and "for sale" signs shall be permitted.
3. For subdivisions, apartment complexes and mobile home parks, churches and other permitted institutional uses, no more than one externally illuminated sign shall be erected at any entrance to the development. Signs shall not exceed thirty five (35) square feet for all readable surfaces, nor exceed four feet (4') in height.
4. Recognized public and quasi-public/institutional uses such as schools and churches may be permitted the display of two (2) temporary banner signs, not exceeding an aggregate area of one hundred (100) square feet. Said signs may not be utilized for more than sixty (60) days per calendar year and may not exceed thirty feet (30') in height above the ground surface.
B. Urban Reserve And Resource Conservation Open Space (UR And RCO) Zone Districts:
1. Signs Advertising Products For Sale: There may be permitted one nonflashing sign for each street frontage advertising products for sale upon the premises or services rendered thereon. The total area of such sign shall not exceed forty (40) square feet. This type of sign may be mounted flush to a building wall, or may be a freestanding sign no more than five feet (5') in height.
C. Professional Office (PO), Commercial Administrative And Office (CAO) And Industrial (I) Zone Districts:
The following signs are permitted for each business in the PO and CAO zone districts. For multi-tenant office parks or commercial uses containing three (3) or more individual uses, a master sign program shall be submitted for review and approval.
1. Wall Signs:
a. Maximum Height: Not to exceed the top of the vertical wall surface on which the sign is mounted. Signs mounted on a pitched roof may not extend beyond the peak of the ridgeline of the roof.
b. Calculation Of Area: One square foot of sign area permitted for each foot of linear occupancy frontage, up to fifty (50) square feet of sign area.
c. Number Per Business: One wall sign is permitted on each wall with a public (customer) entrance or on each wall facing a public street, other than a local residential street.
2. Canopy Awning Signs:
a. Number Of Signs: Awning signs may be used instead of allowable wall signs on the same building facade.
b. Maximum Area: The area of signage on each surface of an awning shall not exceed twenty five percent (25%) of the area of the individual surface.
c. Location And Colors: Awning signs shall be made of removable materials and may be located on one of the three (3) exterior surfaces of a canopy.
3. Freestanding Signs:
a. Maximum Height: Six feet (6').
b. Maximum Sign Area: Thirty five (35) square feet per sign face.
c. Maximum Sign Copy: Thirty five (35) square feet per sign face.
d. Sign Design: Freestanding signs shall be designed as a monument sign with a solid base extending a minimum of fifty percent (50%) of the width of the base, unless a different design is architecturally appropriate, as determined by the community development director. Individual businesses that are listed on a freestanding sign for a multi-tenant site shall be limited to primary tenants, as determined by the community development director.
e. Number Per Site: One freestanding sign will be allowed per site.
f. Setbacks: A freestanding sign shall be set back a minimum of three feet (3') from any interior side property line and five feet (5') from any street front property line. Freestanding signs cannot be located within thirty feet (30') of intersecting curb lines of a street intersection. Encroachment into a setback may be permitted by the development director where the location of existing improvements presents a functional hardship in compliance with the required setback.
4. Directional Signs:
a. Maximum Height: Five feet (5').
b. Maximum Area: Ten (10) square feet.
c. Number Per Site: One per driveway from a public street. Additional signs meeting the maximum height and area may be permitted if they are not visible from the public rights of way.
d. Location: Within five feet (5') of a driveway that accesses the site from a public street. Placement of directional signs shall ensure the sight safety of vehicles entering/leaving a site is not compromised.
D. Neighborhood Commercial (CN), Central And Community Commercial (CC) And Commercial Service (CS) Zone Districts: The following signs are permitted for each business in the CN, CC and CS zone districts. For multi-tenant developments containing three (3) or more individual uses, a master sign program shall be submitted for review and approval.
1. Wall Signs:
a. Maximum Height: Not to exceed the top of the vertical wall surface on which the sign is mounted. Signs mounted on a pitched roof may not extend beyond the peak of the ridgeline of the roof.
b. Calculation Of Area: One square foot of sign area permitted for each foot of linear occupancy frontage, up to one hundred fifty (150) square feet of sign area.
c. Number Per Business: One wall sign is permitted on each wall with a public (customer) entrance or on each wall facing a public street, other than a local residential street. Secondary sign area may be up to fifteen percent (15%) of the building wall area on which the sign is located to a maximum of one hundred fifty (150) square feet.
d. Projecting Signs Included: Wall signs may include projecting signs, subject to the following limitations:
(1) Maximum Height And Projection: Not to exceed roofline of wall or structure to which projecting sign is attached. (Note: Bottom of sign shall be a minimum of 8 feet from ground to provide proper clearance.)
(2) Calculation Of Area: One square foot of sign area for each linear foot of building frontage of the business to which sign pertains.
(3) Maximum Area: Fifty (50) square feet.
(4) Location: Projecting signs may extend over public rights of way including public sidewalks not to exceed two-thirds (2/3) of the distance from the building face to which the sign is attached to the curb face of said sidewalk.
(5) Overall Size: Calculation of sign area is included in overall allowable square footage of wall signs.
2. Canopy/Awning Signs:
a. Number Of Signs: Awning signs may be used instead of allowable wall signs on the same building facade.
b. Maximum Area: The area of signage on each surface of an awning shall not exceed twenty five percent (25%) of the area of the individual surface.
c. Location And Colors: Awning signs shall be made of removable materials and may be located on one of the three (3) exterior surfaces of a canopy.
3. Freestanding Signs:
a. Maximum Height: Twenty feet (20').
b. Maximum Sign Area: Sixty four (64) square feet per sign face.
c. Maximum Sign Copy: Thirty five (35) square feet per sign face.
d. Sign Design: Freestanding signs shall be designed as a monument sign with a solid base extending a minimum of fifty percent (50%) of the width of the base, unless a different design is architecturally appropriate, as determined by the community development director. Individual businesses that are listed on a freestanding sign for a multi-tenant site shall be limited to primary tenants.
e. Number Per Site: One freestanding sign will be allowed per commercial or industrial site.
f. Setbacks: A freestanding sign shall be set back a minimum of three feet (3') from any interior side property line and five feet (5') from any street front property line. Freestanding signs cannot be located within thirty feet (30') of intersecting curb lines of a street intersection. Encroachment into a setback may be permitted by the community development director where the location of existing improvements presents a functional hardship in compliance with the required setback.
g. Exception: Unified centers or shopping centers which have multiple tenant spaces with shared access and other shared facilities shall be allowed two (2) freestanding signs, one on each major street abutting the shopping center consistent with an approved master sign program.
4. Directional Signs:
a. Maximum Height: Five feet (5').
b. Maximum Area: Ten (10) square feet.
c. Number Per Site: One per driveway from a public street. Additional signs meeting the maximum height and area may be permitted if they are not visible from the public rights of way.
d. Location: Within five feet (5') of a driveway that accesses the site from a public street. Placement of directional signs shall ensure the sight safety of vehicles entering/leaving a site is not compromised.
5. Reader Board:
a. Maximum Area: Thirty five (35) square feet.
b. Maximum Height (If Freestanding): Six feet (6').
c. Location: No directory sign which is a freestanding sign may be located closer than five feet (5') to any neighboring property line or closer than three feet (3') to any point of ingress/egress.
6. Temporary Signs:
a. Banners (such as those provided for special events, grand openings, etc.):
(1) Maximum Height: Not to exceed roofline of nearest building or building affixed to but in no case shall any part of a banner be higher than thirty feet (30') from the surface of the ground.
(2) Maximum Area: Fifty (50) square feet aggregate.
(3) Permitted Time: Banner signs may not be utilized for more than sixty (60) calendar days per calendar year per event. A maximum of four (4) events per year.
(4) Number Per Business: A maximum of two (2) banner signs are permitted for each business.
(5) Location: Banners shall not be affixed to fences or landscaping.
(6) Changeable Message Sign: A business that enters into an agreement with the city, or as part of a master sign program, to not use banner signs, may be permitted a changeable message sign to be incorporated into its freestanding monument sign, or as a building wall sign, provided that the overall sign area for the business is not increased.
b. Sandwich/menu board signs:
(1) Number Per Site: One.
(2) Location: May be placed on private sidewalk or public sidewalk, with approved encroachment permit, in front of the subject business, but must permit a minimum of four feet (4') of passage area on sidewalk.
(3) Permitted Display Time: During business hours.
(4) Permit: No permit required.
7. Window Signs:
a. Maximum area: Up to fifty percent (50%) of the area of each individual window may be covered with a window sign or graphic.
8. Alley Signs:
a. Maximum area: Any business which has a building facing a public alley shall be permitted a minimum of twenty five (25) square feet of additional sign area at a ratio of one square foot of sign area for each four feet (4') of building frontage facing the alley.
9. Pedestrian Signs:
a. Number: One pedestrian oriented sign that projects or hangs above a sidewalk on each side of a building with a public entrance.
b. Size: Each sign may be a maximum of five (5) square feet in size and may hang or be suspended no lower than eight feet (8') above grade level. (Ord. 2013-006, 1-14-2014)