Signs in residential areas are prohibited, except as follows:
(a) Signs not exceeding 800 square inches in areas that are customarily associated with residential use and that are not of a commercial nature, such as signs giving property identification, names or numbers or name of occupants, signs or mailboxes or newspaper tubes and signs posted on private property relating to private parking or warning the public against trespassing or danger from animals.
(Ord. 2018-12. Passed 11-15-18.)
(b) Church bulletin boards, church identification signs and church directional signs that do not exceed one per abutting street and thirty-two square feet in area.
(c) Signs at any entrance to a residential subdivision or multi-family development. There may be not more than two signs identifying such subdivision or development. A single side of any such sign may not exceed sixteen square feet, nor may the total surface area of all such signs located at a single entrance exceed thirty-two square feet.
(d) Signs advertising real estate for sale, rent or lease are permitted in all districts when located on the building or land intended to be sold, rented or leased, provided they are used only during the construction of a building or buildings or the offering for sale, rent or lease of real estate. Temporary subdivision signs not exceeding 100 square feet in area may be permitted subject to their approval by the Board of Zoning Appeals for a twelve month period, subject to renewal, providing such signs conform to the conditions established by the Board of Zoning Appeals.
(e) For permitted principal uses other than dwellings and for conditionally permitted uses, one bulletin or announcement board not exceeding thirty-two square feet in area upon the premises wherein a building is properly used other than as a dwelling either through non-conforming use or a conditionally permitted use. Signs so permitted shall not be located nearer to the front lot line than one-half the required front yard setback nor nearer the side lot line than the required side yard setback.
(f) In an R-4 Multiple Family Residential District, one ground or wall sign indicating the name of the multiple housing development which shall be in addition to individual dwelling name plates. Such signs shall not exceed thirty-two square feet in area.
(Ord. 1993-12. Passed 7-19-93.)