(a) Flags and banners shall be permitted in CR and in IL, IG, and IP zoning districts, as provided in this section.
(b) Minimum Clearance. Where a flag or banner is attached only to a free-standing sign the minimum clearance between the bottom of the flag or banner and the ground shall be seven feet. All other installations of flags or banners shall have a minimum clearance of fourteen feet except for banners displayed flat against a building and flags on top of a building.
(c) Number, Size and Setback. Each business premises with one or more businesses, which has individual recorded lot frontage on arterial or major collector streets may display one banner not more than fifteen feet in length, and not more than one square foot in area for each three feet of frontage up to a maximum of thirty square feet in area.
Banners may be displayed on a legal pole or sign or flat against a building, but not abutting a residential district within the setback required from such district, or in other locations which are not within the required side or rear yard. Such signs shall be not less than ten feet from the front lot line.
Flags may be displayed not more than one on a free standing pole or a pole attached to a building provided each flag may contain a written message. Flags shall not be displayed in required side or rear yards, or nearer than ten feet to a front lot line other than on top of an existing, main building, or when flown from a light pole or flag pole installed prior to November 1, 1983. Flags shall be no larger than twelve square feet in area, and shall not overhang the right of way. One such flag may be displayed, as set out above, for each fifteen feet of frontage on an arterial street, for up to six flags. Additional flags within the arterial street frontage requirement, may be approved by the Commissioner of Inspection, with the advice of the Arts Commission or the Plan Commission staff, which he finds enhance the site aesthetically and do not contribute to an overall sign clutter in the area.
(d) No flag or banner shall be maintained which interfere with traffic signals, regulatory signs, sight distance at a street or driveway intersection or otherwise conflicts with safe driving. All proposed installation of flags or banners within the site distance triangle of an arterial street intersection or within ten feet of the right of way, shall be referred to the Commissioner of Transportation for review. The review shall consider traffic safety, sign clutter and design. Approval may be conditioned on modification of the location or arrangement of the proposed sign display. The site distance triangle, for the purposes of this section, is the triangle formed by the curb, or where there is no curb the edge of pavement, on each intersecting street, and a straight line connecting a point on each curb or edge of pavement line. The point shall be 200 feet distant from the intersection of the curb or pavement edges.
(e) Each permit issued for a flag or banner shall be considered temporary, and is valid for a maximum of thirty consecutive days. Only one permit shall be issued per year per premise.
(f) All flags and banners shall be properly maintained so that they will not become torn, faded or otherwise mutilated and shall remain in good condition at all times or be subject to removal.
(Ord. 947-83. Passed 11-22-83; Ord. 104-94. Passed 3-14-94; Ord. 16-18. Passed 1-16-18.)