Outdoor advertising shall be classified as a business use and shall be permitted in all Agriculture, Business and Industrial Districts.
(A) Location.
(1) Industrial, General Business and Agricultural Districts. No outdoor advertising sign or display shall be erected, placed, painted or repainted or hung nearer to any street right-of-way line upon which the display faces the building lines provided in zones where the use is permitted except that one sign advertising the primary nature of the business or industry conducted on the premises may be placed not closer than six feet to the street right-of-way line, but in no case be permitted to obstruct the view of traffic.
(2) Neighborhood Business District. Only signs attached to the structure shall be permitted in Neighborhood Business Districts. Projection signs should not project more than three feet from the building, measured from the building line or point at which the sign is attached, whichever is greater from the street right-of-way or lot line.
(B) Size and placement.
(1) Industrial, General Business and Agricultural Districts. A single sign, billboard or other advertising device containing no more than 200 square feet (including border) shall be permitted in Industrial, General Business or Agriculture Zones. No more than four signs may be erected together containing no more than 200 square feet total. The signs shall be erected within 50 feet of a common point. Any other sign, or signs, shall be at least 1,000 feet from this point. No sign, billboard or other device shall be built at a height greater than the maximum building height permitted in the district in which it is located.
(2) Neighborhood Business. All outdoor advertising signs shall have no more than 50 square feet or have a height greater than three feet.
(C) Lighting and noise. Signs or other outdoor advertising which involve lighting or motion resembling traffic or directional signals, warnings such as “stop” or “danger” or any other similar signs which are normally associated with highway safety regulations, are prohibited. Additionally, no sign or outdoor commercial advertising device constituting a nuisance because of light, glare, focus, animation or flashing or any illuminated signs of such intensity or illumination as to unduly disturb the use of residential property, shall have devices which eliminate noise or sound. Excessive glare and other nuisance producing signs shall be prohibited from affecting residential areas.
(D) Maintenance and compliance. Outdoor advertising structure shall be adequately maintained. The maintenance shall include proper alignment of structures, continued readability of the structure and preservation of the structure with paint and other preservative. If an outdoor advertising structure is not maintained, nor complies with the provisions of this chapter, written notice of any disrepair shall be issued by the Planning Commission to the owner of the structure. If the disrepair or violation is not corrected within 60 days of issuance of the notice, the structure shall be removed at the owner’s expense.
(E) Nonconforming signs and advertising structures. Any advertising sign, billboard, commercial advertising structure or statuary which is existing and maintained at the time this chapter becomes effective, which does not conform with the provisions hereof, shall not be structurally altered except to comply with this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 152.061) Penalty, see § 152.999