1153.17 TABLE 26: REGULATORY STATUS OF SIGN TYPES.
Nonexempt
 

Exempt

Permitted
Conditional Use

Prohibited
Awning signs
x
Awning signs, electric
x
Apartment building identification signs
x
Balloons and air-activated signs, permanent
x
Banner signs:
Temporary [b]
x
Permanent
x
Bulletin boards
x
Canopy signs
x
Changing signs
x
Construction signs
x
Copy change on sign [e]
x
Directional signs:
Nonilluminated
x
Illuminated
x
Directory signs
x
Election campaign signs
x
Expressway signs
x
Flags and institutional insignias
x
Flashing signs
x
Free-standing signs
x
Government or utility signs
x
Government-mandated signs
x
Help wanted signs
x
Industrial park entrance signs
x
Institutional/government announcement board
x
Institutional use signs, permanent
x
Institutional use signs, temporary
x
Maintenance, cleaning, repair or painting of sign:
On-site [f]
x
Off-site [g]
x
Memorials and plaques
x
Menu board signs
x
Message boards
x
Moving signs:
Rotating signs
x
Other moving signs
x
Mural signs:
On walls
x
Elsewhere
x
Name plate sins
x
No trespassing signs
x
Outdoor advertising signs:
Over 378 SF or 40 feet high
x
All other
x
Portable signs
x
Projecting signs:
  
In C-3 or HO Districts
x
Elsewhere
x
Real estate signs:
8 SF or less
x
Over 8 SF
x
Residential development entrance signs
x
Roof signs
x
Sandwich-type signs, permanent
x
Scoreboards, athletic
x
Search and beacon lights, temporary [c]
x
Seasonal displays [h]
x
Service station signs
x
Shopping center signs
x
Sidewalk or curb signs
x
Signs in HO District District [d]
x
Signs on rocks, trees, or natural objects
x
Signs on vacant land [a]
x
Streamers, festoons, pennants, permanent
x
Street clocks
x
Street numbers
x
Strings of lights, permanent
x
Temporary signs, all other [c]
x
Under canopy signs
x
Vehicle signs
x
Vending machine signs
x
Wall signs
x
Window signs:
Temporary
x
Permanent
x
Yard sale signs
x
All other nonexempt permanent signs not expressly permitted herein
x
 
Notes for Table 26
See Table 27, Section 1153.18 for requirements for exempt signs.
See Table 28, Section 1153.19 for requirements for nonexempt signs.
For distinction between "temporary" and "permanent signs", see Chapter 1109 .
 
[a]   Except real estate signs, construction signs or outdoor advertising signs, which are permitted on vacant land.
[b]   Temporary banner signs in the O-1 Local Office District are not exempt.
[c]   May be permitted as provided under temporary uses in Chapter 1129.
[d]   Permitted only after issuance by the Design Review Board of a certificate of appropriateness.
[e]   Change in copy of a changeable copy sign (including outdoor advertising signs) or face replacement on a sign not involving structural change, a change in any dimension thereof, removal of all or any part of the sign support structure, or any change of use.
[f]   No sign permit shall be required for maintenance operations, such as removal and reinstallation of sign faces, that do not involve removal of all or any part of the sign support structure.
[g]   A sign permit shall be required for:
   1.   Any maintenance or repair involving removal and reinstallation of all or any part of the sign support structure; or
   2.   Any structural repair or alteration to the support structure.
(Ord. 18-124. Passed 12-10-18.)