(A) It is the intent of this section to establish reasonable and uniform limitations, safeguards and controls for the operation and use of advertising signs in highway-oriented business locations. Such requirements are deemed necessary in the public interest to protect the use and value of adjoining properties, as well as the best interests of the community. Advertising signs or billboards may be permitted as a special exception subject to the requirements of this section and §§ 156.400 through 156.405 of this chapter.
(B) For purposes of this section, an advertising sign shall be construed in accordance with the definition and subject to the provisions of this subchapter. All off-premises advertising signs are billboards.
(C) One advertising sign shall be permitted on any lot of at least 300 feet of frontage on a street designated as a secondary arterial or primary arterial in the A-1, A-2, LB, RB, GB, IB, I-1 and I-2 Districts, and one additional advertising sign shall be permitted for each 300 feet of additional frontage.
(D) Minimum setback lines shall be 50 feet from the right-of-way as proposed and/or set forth in the County Thoroughfare Plan to the closest edge of any portion of the advertising sign/billboard.
(E) No advertising sign shall be permitted within 100 feet of a residential or agricultural district unless said sign is provided and maintained with landscape screening in order to mask the sign from view of the district.
(F) The number of traffic access points shall not exceed one for each such sign frontage.
(G) The facing of an advertising sign shall not be greater than 18 feet in vertical dimension, nor greater than 55 in horizontal dimension, except as provided in division (I) below, and shall not contain more than two advertising signs per facing.
(H) The face of an advertising sign shall be viewed along the line of travel to which it is exposed for a distance of at least 250 feet along the centerline of the frontage street measured from a point opposite the center of the sign and perpendicular to the street’s centerline; provided, however:
(1) In the case of a sign parallel (or within 20 degrees of parallel) to a one-way street, the required viewing distance shall be at least 400 feet;
(2) In the case of a sign which is from three to 20 degrees of parallel to a two-way street, the required viewing distance shall be at least 400 feet;
(3) In the case of a sign parallel (or within three degrees of parallel) to a two-way street, the required viewing distance shall be at least 250 feet in each direction; and
(4) In the case of a sign so placed that it can be viewed from more than one street, the above viewing distance requirements shall be applicable to only one street.
(I) No semi-trailer(s) shall be used for signage.
(J) The maximum height of advertising signs erected upon the ground shall not exceed 40 feet above the street elevation to which the sign is oriented.
(Ord. passed - -2006, § 80.37(C); Ord. 2007-2-F, passed 3-12-2007) Penalty, see § 156.999