The following signs shall be permitted in R
Districts:
A. One nameplate not exceeding one square foot in area
and identifying a professional office conducted in the building on
which such sign is displayed. Any illumination thereof shall be indirect
and nonintermittent.
B. One bulletin board sign, not exceeding 12 square feet
in surface display area, shall be permitted for a house of worship,
provided that if said bulletin board sign is not attached to the facade
of the building, it shall be located no closer than 10 feet to a street
line. Such signs may be illuminated by backlighting or by direct lighting,
provided that the latter is so screened that light is not directed
or reflected toward any adjacent residence.
C. Private schools, clubs and permitted institutional
uses may identify themselves with one nameplate sign not exceeding
nine square feet of surface display area, provided that if said sign
is not attached to the facade of the building, it shall be set back
from the street line a distance of 18 feet or more.
D. Bulletin board directory signs not exceeding 12 square
feet of surface display area shall be permitted in apartment dwelling
groups, provided that only one such sign shall be maintained for each
street frontage upon which the apartment dwelling group fronts, provided
further that such sign or signs shall be set back from the street
line a distance of 18 feet or more and that only backlighting shall
be used to provide artificial illumination.
E. Any structure containing a use permitted in a B or
M District but not an R District and which exists as a nonconforming
use may display flat business signs on the wall of said structure,
the aggregate area of which sign shall not exceed 10% of the facade
of the first story. Any illumination of such signs shall be indirect
and nonintermittent.
F. One sign not exceeding four square feet in area advertising
the sale of agricultural or horticultural products grown on the premises.
G. One for-sale or for-rent sign not exceeding four square
feet in area, advertising only the property on which it is displayed.
[Amended 7-2-1985 by Ord. No. 4988-85]
The following types of signs shall be permitted
in B and M Districts:
A. Flat signs which shall not project more than six inches
beyond the building facade and/or one sidewall thereof.
B. Nonflashing illuminated flat signs which shall not
project more than 11 inches beyond the building facade and/or one
sidewall thereof.
C. Ground signs which must observe all building setback
lines and which do not exceed a height of 20 feet above the grade
of the roadway to which the sign is directed.
D. Roof signs attached to the roof of a building, provided
that such sign shall be set back at least four feet from the facade
of the building and shall have not less than two feet of bottom open
space along its entire length. No sign shall be attached to or placed
upon another sign.
The permitted total surface display area of
permitted signs in the respective following districts shall not exceed
the square footage figures produced by application of the following
formulas (street frontage being expressed here in linear feet):
A. B-A and B-A1 Districts: 0.30 times the street frontage
plus 0.10 times the secondary street frontage in the case of a corner
lot.
B. B-B Districts: 1.25 times the total principal street
frontage plus 0.30 times the secondary street frontage in the case
of a corner lot.
C. B-C Districts.
(1) Permitted business signs: 2.0 times the principal
street frontage plus 1.0 times the secondary street frontage in the
case of a corner lot.
(2) Additional business sign quota for dual entrance stores.
Structures containing stores which maintain both street front and
rear parking entrances for the general use of customers may, in addition
to other provisions of this article, provide additional business sign
area on such prescribed rear facade to an extent of 0.30 times the
building width or portion thereof devoted to retail commerce, said
building being measured in linear feet as fronting upon such rear
parking lot.
D. B-D Districts:
(1) Permitted business signs: 2.5 times the total principal
street frontage plus 1.0 times the secondary street frontage in the
case of a corner lot.
(2) Permitted advertising signs: 2.5 times the total principal
street frontage plus 1.0 times the secondary street frontage in the
case of a corner lot.
(3) Advertising signs on vacant lots: 5.0 times the principal
street frontage plus zero-tenths (2.0) times the secondary street
frontage in the case of a corner lot. If the figure produced by the
application of this formula to a given lot exceeds 199 square feet
but not 500 square feet, the applicant may erect two advertising signs
not exceeding 500 square feet in total surface display area.
E. M-1 Districts. The same formulas as for B-D Districts
shall apply.
F. M-2 Districts. The same formulas as for B-D Districts
shall apply.
G. M-3 Districts. The same formulas as for B-D Districts
shall apply.
[Added 5-3-1983 by Ord. No. 4805-83]
[Amended 7-2-1985 by Ord. No. 4988-85; 3-1-1988 by Ord. No. 5249-88]
Advertising signs shall not be permitted, nor shall any advertising sign be erected, in an R, B-A, B-A1, B-B, B-C, PCD or PCRD District. In B-D and M Districts, advertising signs shall be permitted as a conditional use to be granted by the Planning Board and limited as provided for in §
461-58 of this article.
[Amended 7-16-2002 by Ord. No. 6295-02]
A. Billboard, wall, roof and ground advertising signs
shall be limited to the number in existence at the time of the passage
of this section, and may be replaced or relocated in permitted districts
within one year after the billboard, wall, roof or ground sign is
destroyed or removed from the original location. The replacement or
relocated billboard, wall, roof or ground advertising sign shall not
exceed in size the total square footage of the billboard(s), wall
sign(s), roof or ground advertising signs that same is replacing,
and shall be subject to all other provisions of the district in which
same is to be located.
B. The applicant shall provide a description of any proposed
sign(s) that is to be removed or replaced, including the location
and size, in order to consider the proposed sign.