Number Permitted Per Lot* | Maximum Area (sq.ft.)** | Maximum Height (feet)** | Minimum Setback (feet)** | Other Require- ments | ||
W.O. Bonus | With Bonus | |||||
General: | ||||||
Construction signs | 1 [a] | 32 | 32 | 12 | 5 | [d] |
Outdoor advertising signs | 1 | 378 | 378 | 40 | RFY | [p] |
Real estate signs | 1 [a] | 32 | 32 | 12 | 5 | [n] [d] |
Signs in HO District | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | [j] |
Residential Uses: | ||||||
Apartment building identification signs | 1 | 8 | 8 | -- | -- | -- |
Development entrance signs | 1 [b] | 32 | 32 | 6 | 15 | [w] |
Institutional Uses: | 1 [a] | 32 | 32 | 6 | 5 | -- |
Commercial, Office, and Industrial Uses: | ||||||
Wall/awning/canopy signs [1]: | ||||||
Front | 1 [c] | 100 | 130 | [k] | -- | [k] |
Rear/side entrance signs | 1 [b] | 32 | 42 | 12 | -- | [m] |
Free standing signs [2]: | ||||||
Office/industrial uses: | ||||||
Park entrance signs | 1 [b] | 50 | 100 | 6 | 15 | -- |
Other signs | 1 [a] | 50 | 100 | 6 | 15 | [h] |
Commercial uses: | ||||||
Expressway signs | 1 [e] | 378 | 378 | 40 | 15 | [e] |
Message boards or changing signs | 1 [a] | [g] | [g] | -- | -- | -- |
Shopping center signs | 1 | 100 | 200 | 20 | 15 | [l] |
Other signs | 1-2[a] | 100 | 200 | 20 | 15 | [I] |
In C-3 Districts | 1 [a] | 32 | 64 | 12 | 0 | -- |
All uses in HO District | 1 [a] | 16 | 32 | 6 | 5 | [j] |
Other signs: | ||||||
Banner signs, permanent | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | [q] |
Menu board signs | 1 [c] | 50 | 50 | -- | -- | [s] |
Portable signs | 1 | 50 | 50 | 6 | 5 | [t] |
Projecting signs | 1 [c] | 16 | 16 | -- | 0 | [u] |
Service station rate signs | 1 [a] | 8 | 8 | 12 | 15 | [v] |
Street clocks | 1 | -- | -- | 20 | -- | [o] |
Under canopy signs | 1 [c] | 8 | 8 | -- | 0 | [r] |
Window signs, permanent | -- | [f] | [f] | -- | -- | [f] |
Notes for Table 28
Please also see Table 27, Section 1153.18 for types of signs to which the standards in Table 28 do not apply.
See also Table 29, Section 1153.20 for additional requirements.
See Chapter 1109 for specific definitions of items used in this table.
-- Indicates no restriction other than as specified in footnotes or definitions.
RFY: Required front or corner side yard in applicable district.
* The number of signs is the number of display surfaces or display devices containing elements organized, related and composed to form a unit. Where in the judgment of the Chief Building Official copy and decorative matter are displayed randomly without an organized relationship of elements, each shall be considered a separate sign even if such elements are part of a single structure. Each facing of a sign shall be considered a separate sign if the distance between the back of the facing and the back of another facing of the same sign exceeds five feet.
** Maximum area is sign area as defined herein. May be increased in accordance with bonus provisions of Table 30, Section 1153.20. First figure in table represents maximum area without bonuses; second figure represents maximum area with bonuses.
Maximum height is sign height as defined herein.
Minimum setback is setback as defined herein. May be reduced in accordance with bonus provisions of Table 30, Section 1153.20.
[1] Wall/canopy/awning sign area:
Included in this maximum area are areas of all:
1. Wall, canopy and awning signs; and
2. Permanent window signs; and
3. Under canopy signs; and
4. Wall-mounted message boards or changing
signs that serve the same business establishment.
[2] Free-standing sign area:
Included in this maximum area are areas of all:
1. Free-standing signs; and
2. Message boards or changing signs that are free-standing or are attached to free-standing signs.
[a] Per street frontage per lot. In shopping center, per street frontage per shopping center, not per lot.
[b] Per entrance or exit to or from street, alley or parking area.
[c] Per street frontage per ground floor business establishment, not per lot.
[d] Shall not be illuminated.
[e] Expressway signs: A commercial use may have one free-standing on-premise sign oriented to an expressway per lot in addition to other signs permitted herein if such use is located wholly or partially:
1. Within 1,000 feet of an expressway right-of-way; and
2. Within 2,500 feet along the expressway right-of-way from the point of intersection of an accessible off-ramp with the right-of-way of the feeder highway in the direction opposite to the traffic flow on that ramp.
Required setback shall be measured from expressway right-of-way. Expressway signs shall not be permitted in HO District. Expressway signs shall have a minimum sign spacing as defined herein of 500 feet except where the Chief Building Official determines this to be impractical.
In lieu of the on-premise expressway sign, a use may substitute one outdoor advertising sign meeting all the requirements herein for an expressway sign. Minimum sign spacing between substituted signs and all other outdoor advertising sign and expressway signs shall be 500 feet.
Such substitution shall not be permitted in areas where off-premise signs are not permitted under regulations of the Ohio Department of Transportation, that is, within 500 feet of any interchange as measured from the nearest point of the beginning or ending of the pavement widening at the exit or entrance to the main traveled way, as provided in Chapter 5501:2-2 of the Ohio Administrative Code or any amendment thereto.
[f] Permanent window signs: The areas of both permanent and temporary window signs together shall not exceed fifty percent (50%) of area of any window of any establishment. See also Table 29.
[g] Message boards or changing signs: Shall be permitted only as part of free-standing or wall signs and shall be subject to all requirements herein, including height and area, for such signs. Not permitted in HO District.
[h] Free standing industrial and office signs: May include a directory sign. Maximum area shall be sixteen square feet in HO District. See Table 29, Section 1153.19.
[i] Free standing on-premise commercial signs: Shall have a minimum sign spacing as defined herein of 100 feet, except where the Chief Building Official determines this distance to be impractical. May include a message board or changing sign. Maximum area shall be thirty-two square feet in C-3 Downtown District and sixteen square feet in HO District. Establishments with frontage on a single street greater than 300 feet may have a second free-standing sign along that street conforming to all requirements applicable to the first sign and having a minimum sign spacing from the first sign of 100 feet.
[j] Signs in HO Historic Overlay District: Permitted only after approval by the Design Review Board of a certificate of appropriateness. Signs shall be of wood, fabric, metal or masonry materials only except for permanent window signs lettered directly on window glass and temporary window signs, which may be of paper products.
Permanent signs shall be in colors harmonious in the judgment of the Design Review Board with the color scheme of the building. Any illumination shall be external only. No sign lettering shall be more than twenty inches high. No outdoor advertising signs, message boards, changing signs, changeable copy signs, menu board signs, expressway signs, portable signs or roof signs shall be permitted in the HO District.
[k] Wall, awning or canopy signs: Signs may be located on wall of principal building, awning or canopy facing public street only. Sign shall not extend beyond the perimeter of the wall, fascia or face of awning or canopy to which it is attached. Maximum sign height is top of awning or canopy, roof line, top of parapet of wall to which sign is attached or twenty feet, whichever is lowest. Minimum sign clearance for awning or canopy sign shall be fifteen feet over vehicular areas and eight feet over all other areas.
An awning or canopy sign may project over public right-of-way but shall project no more than four feet from vertical building wall or two-thirds of width of public sidewalk, whichever is less. No awning or canopy sign shall have an area exceeding two-thirds of the face of the awning or canopy on which the sign is displayed. Maximum sign area for any wall, canopy or awning sign shall be thirty-two square feet in HO District.
Two per frontage provided that no sign exceeds sixteen square feet in area and the total of all such signs does not exceed 100 square feet.
[l] Shopping center sign: Shall be only free-standing sign in the shopping center. Centers with frontage on two streets may substitute one sign on each frontage with a sign height of twelve feet or less (each of which may have the maximum sign area permitted) for the single sign otherwise permitted. A shopping center sign may include a directory sign or message board.
[m] Rear or side entrance signs: Permitted only for building entrances on walls without street frontage, such as adjacent to alleys or off-street parking areas. Shall be mounted on wall, awning or canopy only. If sign is a canopy, awning or projecting sign, projection and minimum clearance provided herein for projecting signs shall be provided.
[o] Street clocks: Minimum clearance shall be fifteen feet over vehicular areas and eight feet over all other areas.
[p] Outdoor advertising signs: Allowed only in C-4 and I Districts. Shall display no more than one face in each direction. Signs facing a Residential District shall be located a minimum of 100 feet from the boundary line of the district they face. All outdoor advertising signs shall have a minimum sign spacing as defined herein from other outdoor advertising signs of 660 feet. Any illumination shall be indirect. Signs shall not be permitted in HO District. Signs exceeding maximum area or height in this table may be approved as a conditional use. See also provisions for expressway signs.
[q] Banner signs, permanent: Permitted only for commercial and industrial uses. Not permitted for office, institutional or residential uses. Shall not be displayed longer than a continuous period of sixty days.
[r] Under canopy signs: Maximum width of seventy-five percent (75%) of horizontal canopy projection. Area is counted in maximum wall sign area. Minimum sign clearance shall be fifteen feet over vehicular areas and eight feet over all other areas. Sign shall not project more than one and five-tenths feet below canopy.
[s] Menu board signs: Shall be free standing or wall signs located in or facing actual side or rear yards only. Shall not be permitted in HO District.
[t] Portable signs: Including signs on trailers. May be displayed one time each year per place of business for a maximum of thirty days. Placement is subject to approval of the Chief Building Official. Shall not be permitted in HO Districts.
[u] Projecting signs: Permitted only on properties with frontage on streets with a speed limit of thirty-five miles per hour or less and only in C-3 Downtown Commercial and HO Historic Overlay Districts. May project over public right-of-way but shall project no more than four feet from vertical building wall or two-thirds of width of public sidewalk over which it projects, whichever is less. Sign shall not project above roof line, top of parapet wall to which sign is attached, or twenty feet, whichever is lowest. Minimum sign clearance shall be fifteen feet over vehicular areas and eight feet over all other areas.
[v] Service station signs: Permitted at automobile service stations in addition to other signs permitted herein.
(Ord. 87-94. Passed 7-27-87; Ord. 91-158. Passed 11-12-91.)
[x] Bench signs: May be permitted as a conditional use in C and I Districts and may be exempted from spacing and setback requirements. Sign area per bench sign may not exceed twenty square feet.
(Ord. 18-124. Passed 12-10-18.)