Business signs are permitted in a business or industrial district. Billboards are permitted only in C-2 and I-1 Districts. Such signs are subject to the following regulations; a zoning certificate shall be required.
(a) Location.
(1) Business signs may be fixed flat against the wall of buildings or may project not more than four feet. The bottom of a projecting sign shall be at least ten feet above the finished grade of the building.
(2) No business sign or billboard shall be erected closer than eighty feet to any intersection with the exception of those signs incidental to legal process and necessary to the public welfare or those signs attached to a building or structure, and they must be placed so as not to obstruct the view or cause a traffic hazard.
(3) All business signs and billboards erected beyond eighty feet of any intersection must be erected so as not to obstruct view or cause a traffic hazard.
(4) All billboards shall be required to meet the minimum setback requirements of the district in which they are located.
(5) No business sign or billboard shall be located on, or project into, a public right of way, except that in the C-1 District, business signs may project over the right of way a distance not to exceed four feet.
(b) Construction.
(1) No business sign or billboard shall be constructed so as to be a nuisance or be detrimental to the surrounding land uses.
(2) Maximum size of business signs shall be 200 square feet per side with a total sign area not to exceed 400 square feet, exclusive of base, poles or other types of support. Maximum size of billboards shall be 550 square feet per side exclusive of base, poles or other types of support.
(3) No free-standing billboard shall have less than three feet of bottom open space along its entire length. Latticing shall be regarded as satisfying this requirement.
(c) Illumination.
(1) Any business sign or billboard illuminated with electric lights, including neon or other gaseous type tubes or incandescent lamps, erected within 100 feet of an intersection where an illuminated device has been provided for the control of traffic may not duplicate in the electric light of such sign, any colors appearing in the traffic control signal, nor have any blinking, flashing or revolving light.
(2) Any illuminated business sign or billboard shall be so shaded as not to interfere with the vision of persons on the highway or to annoy neighbors.
(Ord. 1500. Passed 12-14-99.)