(A) Plan required. No permit shall be issued for an individual sign requiring a permit unless and until a Master Signage Plan or Common Signage Plan for the zoning lot on which the sign will be erected has been submitted to the Building Administrator and approved in accordance with this chapter.
(B) Master Signage Plan. For any zoning lot on which the owner proposes to erect one or more signs requiring a permit, unless that zoning lot is included in a Common Signage Plan, the owner shall submit to the Building Administrator a Master Signage Plan containing the following:
(1) An accurate plot plan of the zoning lot, at a scale as the Administrator may reasonably require;
(2) Location of buildings, parking lots, driveways, and landscaped areas on the zoning lot;
(3) Computation of the maximum total sign area, the maximum area for individual signs, the height of signs, and the number of freestanding monument signs allowed on the zoning lot; and
(4) An accurate indication of the plot plan of the proposed location of each present and future sign of any type, whether requiring a permit or not, except that the incidental signs need not be shown.
(C) Common Signage Plan.
(1) A Common Signage Plan may be filed with the Planning and Zoning Administrator in situations where owners of two or more contiguous lots, which are not separated by a public street, seek to share a common monument sign in lieu of installing individual single occupant business monument signs. The plan must conform to the provisions of this chapter.
(2) A Common Signage Plan must be filed with the Planning and Zoning Administrator by the owner of a single lot with more than one tenant (not including any accessory building). The sign must allow for the maximum amount of tenants of the lot to be displayed. The plan must conform to the provisions of this chapter.
(3) The Common Signage Plan shall contain all of the information required for a Master Signage Plan and shall also specify standards for consistency among all signs on the zone lots affected by the plan with regard to:
(a) Color scheme;
(b) Lettering or graphic style;
(c) Lighting;
(d) Location of each sign on the buildings;
(e) Material; and
(f) Sign proportions.
(4) Design. All freestanding identification signs, general business signs, and multipurpose signs which are part of a Common Signage Plan shall be monument signs. This division refers to freestanding monument signs in an AG, AG-B or C-3 districts, C-l, C-2, C-3, MF, PDC, PDM, and industrial/manufacturing districts. The maximum height of a sign used in a common signage plan shall be seven feet, maximum length shall be eight feet and display area, not including architectural details, shall not exceed 32 square feet. The entire sign must be located a minimum of ten feet behind a right of way line, property line, or easement line.
(a) All monument signs shall provide the numerical designation of the building served, with minimum three-inch text.
(b) Changeable copy shall not be incorporated into monument signs in this section.
(D) Showing window signs on Common or Master Signage Plan. A Common Signage Plan or Master Signage Plan including window signs may simply indicate the areas of the windows to be covered by window signs and the general type of the window signs (such as, paper affixed to window, painted, or material hung outside window) and need not specify the exact dimensions or nature of every window sign.
(E) Limit on the number of freestanding monument signs under Common Signage Plan. The Common Signage Plan, for all zoning lots with multiple uses or multiple users, shall limit the number of freestanding monument signs to a total of one for each street on which the zoning lots included in the plan have frontage and shall provide for shared or common usage of these signs.
(F) Consent. The Master or Common Signage Plan shall be signed by all owners or their authorized agents in such form as the Planning and Zoning Administrator shall require.
(H) Amendment. A Master or Common Signage Plan may be amended by filing a new Master or Common Signage Plan that conforms with all of the procedures and requirements of this chapter and town ordinances then in effect.
(Ord. 23, § 2.50.195, passed 3-19-1997; Am. Ord. 2003-109A, passed 10-8-2004; Am. Ord. 210-A, passed 12-10-2015)