(A) No off-premise sign may be located within 1,000 feet of any other off-premise sign. No off-premises signs may be located within 1,000 feet of any residential district unless all the following requirements are met:
(1) Said off-premise sign is to be located no less than 600 feet from a residential district;
(2) Said off-premise sign is advertising a non-residential development that has street frontage on a local street and desires off-premises signage on an arterial street that is within 400 feet of the development;
(3) Said non-residential development may erect one off-premise sign advertising said non-residential development;
(4) Said off-premise sign shall be calculated as part of the overall sign surface area for the development as enumerated in § 153.186;
(5) Said off-premise sign must be located on property owned by the requesting nonresidential development and/or community property owned by a Property Owners Association (POA) that the non-residential development is a member of such as a stormwater facility lot. Said off-premise sign may not be located more than 400 feet from the nonresidential development;
(6) Said off-premise sign shall not exceed the size restrictions as enumerated in § 153.187.
(B) No sign may be located so that it substantially interferes with the view necessary for motorists to proceed safely through intersections or to enter onto or exit from public streets or private roads.
(C) All signs must be constructed and erected in accordance with the Southern Building Code and its related State Building Code amendments.
(D) No sign may be erected on town-maintained or private rights-of-way so that by its location, color, size, shape, nature or message it would tend to obstruct the view of or be confused with official traffic signs or other signs erected by governmental agencies.
(E) Freestanding signs shall be securely fastened to the ground or to some other substantial supportive structure so that there is virtually no danger that either the sign or the supportive structure may be moved by the wind or other forces of nature and cause injury to persons or property.
(F) Outdoor advertising signs shall be located in such a way that they maintain horizontal and vertical clearance of all overhead electrical conductors in accordance with the National Electrical Code; provided that, in no case shall an outdoor advertising sign be erected closer than ten feet horizontally or vertically from any conductor or public utility guy wire.
(G) Whenever an outdoor advertising sign or structure becomes structurally unsafe, the Building Inspector shall give written notice to the owner of the sign, or the owner of the premises on which the sign is located, that such sign shall be made safe or removed within ten days of said notification. Further, whenever an outdoor advertising structure has outlived any useful purpose for which it was intended, it shall be removed forthwith.
(Ord. passed 4-9-2013; Ord. 2021-01, passed 5-11-2021; Ord. 2021-03, passed 6-8-2021)