A. Comprehensive Sign Plan Required: No permit shall be issued for a sign to be located in a unified business center until a comprehensive sign plan has been approved for the center and the sign complies with the provisions thereof.
B. Application For Sign Plan Approval: Application for approval of a comprehensive sign plan shall be made in writing to the plan commission 1 on a form and in a manner prescribed by them.
The application shall include a format for all signs to be used in the center, including their maximum size, color, location, illumination details, lettering type, mounting details and (if any) landscaping details.
C. Approval Of Sign Plan: Approval of a comprehensive sign plan shall be at the discretion of the village board after receiving the recommendation of the plan commission.
The criteria for approval of a comprehensive sign plan shall be the following:
1. Every sign shall have good scale and proportion in its design and in its visual relationship to the other signs, buildings and surroundings.
2. The signs in the plan shall be designed as an integral architectural element of the building and site to which they principally relate and shall not appear as "add ons" or intrusions.
3. The colors, materials and lighting of every sign shall be restrained and harmonious with the building and site to which it principally relates.
4. The number of graphic elements and letters shall be held to the minimum needed to convey each sign's major message and shall be composed in proportion to the area of the sign's face.
5. Each sign shall be compatible with signs on adjoining premises.
D. Identification Sign: A unified business center may have one identification sign for the center in addition to the signs permitted for each separate business. Such identification signs may only include the name and graphic logo of the center, address of the center and also may include a time and/or temperature sign.
The permitted area of such identification sign shall be based upon a ratio of ten (10) square feet per one acre of the center's site, up to a maximum of seventy five (75) square feet. Every unified business center is permitted an identification sign of at least four (4) square feet per sign face.
Otherwise, unified business center identification signs shall conform to the regulations of the sign type to which they most closely resemble.
E. Directory Signs: Unified business centers may have common directory signs to guide pedestrians to individual businesses on the site. Such signs shall be limited to three (3) square feet per business listed on the sign. Centers must have a minimum of five (5) businesses to qualify to have one directory sign and may have one additional sign for each five (5) businesses.
F. Temporary Seasonal Signs: Unified business centers are allowed temporary seasonal or community event banners that include only the name of the unified business center and identification of a season, holiday or community event and do not include the name of any individual business, merchant or proprietor, on the condition that:
1. The banners be displayed for a period no longer than ninety (90) consecutive days and, once removed, not be displayed again for at least forty five (45) days.
2. The banners are suspended from an existing structure serving another primary purpose, such as light poles (which structure was not erected just to support the banners), and provided further that the banners are not attached to any building or any other sign or sign support.
3. The banners do not exceed six feet (6') in length (as hung) and thirty one inches (31") in width (as hung) and are at least thirteen feet (13') above the ground at their lowest point (as hung). (Ord. 2010-07-23, 7-15-2010)
Notes
| 1 | 1. See title 2, chapter 2 of this code. |