Within RS12, RS9, RS6, RD6, RM12, RM24, RM36 and RMH Residential Districts, signs are permitted as follows:
(a) Area Identification Sign. Area identification signs are permitted to identify a unique subdivision or development. The sign shall be located only at the intersection of streets of the subdivision with major streets of the City. The sign shall be a part of a wall or fence, decorative in nature. It shall contain only the name of the subdivision or development. No part of the wall or fence within fifty feet of the edge of the pavement shall be of greater height than forty-two inches. The letters of identification on the sign shall be no larger than ten inches in height.
(b) For permitted non-residential uses (institutions), not more than two of the following three signs are permitted unless the institution is located at the intersection of two major streets whereupon one additional low profile or identification facia sign is permitted:
(1) Institutional bulletin board. One shall be permitted in the front yard but set back no less than twenty feet from property line with an area of no more than thirty-two square feet per sign face. Maximum height of sign shall be six feet.
(2) Low profile sign. The top of the sign shall be no higher than forty-two inches from grade, with individual letters being no larger than ten inches in height, subject to an exception when the yard grade where the sign is located is more than eighteen inches higher than the street grade. When the yard grade where the sign is located, except for landscape mounds, is more than eighteen inches above street grade and the sign is set back at least twenty-three feet from the curb, or edge of pavement on an uncurbed street, then the height of the top of the sign may be measured from the yard grade provided the top of the sign shall be no more than sixty inches above street grade. Signs on landscape mounds shall maintain the maximum forty-two inches above street or curb grade to top of sign.
(3) Identification facia sign. The individual letters shall be no larger than ten inches in height.
(Ord. 170-04. Passed 3-23-04.)