As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
ADVERTISING PANELS
A sign relating to a product, service, activity, business
or establishment that is not on the premises on which the sign is
located, or a freestanding sign larger than 150 square feet and commonly
called a "billboard."
APPLICANT
An individual, tenant and/or property owner requesting a
sign or temporary sign permit.
BUSINESS COMPLEX
Three or more businesses and/or offices conducted on the
same lot.
COLLECTOR STREET
A street which serves or is designed to serve as a traffic-way
for a neighborhood or as a feeder to a major street.
ERECT
To build, construct, alter, display, relocate, attach, hang,
place, suspend or affix any sign, and also includes the painting of
signs on exterior walls.
FRONT
In reference to a building or structure, the outer surface
of a building or structure which is visible from any private or public
street, highway or public way.
LIGHTING DEVICE
Any light, string of lights or group of lights located or
arranged so as to cast illumination on a sign.
MAJOR STREET
A street which serves or is designed to serve heavy flows
of traffic and which is used primarily as a route for traffic between
communities and/or other heavy-traffic-generating areas.
PERSON
A person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company,
institution or organization of any kind.
PROPERTY LINE
(1)
FRONT PROPERTY LINEThe line separating the property from the boundary of the highway or right-of-way upon which the property abuts.
(2)
FRONT PROPERTY LINE OF CORNER LOTThat portion of a lot that is directly adjacent to that side of the principal building which is directly opposite the architectural main entrance of said building and the neighboring side lot line.
SIGN
A name, identification, display, announcement, declaration,
device, demonstration or illustration which is affixed to or painted
or represented directly or indirectly upon a building, structure or
parcel of property and which directs attention to an object, product,
place, person, activity, institution, organization or business and
is intended to attract attention or propose a commercial transaction.
SIGN, CHANGEABLE COPY
A sign constructed or designed to allow for periodic changes
of copy, and for which the copy is changed not more than once each
twenty-four-hour period.
SIGN, DIGITAL OR ELECTRONIC
Signs whose alphabetic, pictographic or symbolic informational
content can be changed or altered on a fixed display surface composed
of electrically illuminated or mechanically driven changeable segments.
Includes the following two types:
(1)
FIXED MESSAGE ELECTRONIC SIGNSSigns whose basic informational content has been pre-programmed to include only certain types of information projections, such as time, temperature, predictable traffic conditions or other events subject to prior programming.
SIGN, DOUBLE-FACED
A sign designed to be viewed from two directions and which
at no point is thicker than 24 inches measured from the exterior surface
of each face, and the two faces of the sign are either parallel or
the angle between them is 30° or less.
SIGN, FLASHING
An illuminated sign in which the artificial lighting is not
maintained in a stationary or constant intensity.
SIGN, FREESTANDING
A sign not attached to any building, but permanently affixed,
by any means, in or upon the ground.
SIGN, HUMAN
A human sign is a sign held by or attached to a human for
the purposes of advertising or otherwise drawing attention to an individual,
business, commodity, service, activity or product. A person dressed
in costume for the purpose of advertising or otherwise drawing attention
to an individual, business, commodity, service, activity or product
shall also be construed as a human sign.
SIGN, ILLUMINATED
Any sign illuminated by electricity, gas or any other artificial
lighting.
SIGN, MONUMENT
A freestanding sign, supported by columns and a base, which
is placed on or at ground level and not attached to any building wall,
fence or other structure.
SIGN, PORTABLE
A sign (whether on its own trailer, wheels or otherwise)
designed to be movable and not structurally attached to the ground,
a building, structure or any other sign.
SIGN, PROJECTING
A sign which is attached to the building wall and which extends
more than 15 inches from the surface of such wall, or a sign which
is perpendicular to the surface of such wall.
SIGN, ROOF
A sign erected upon a roof or parapet of a building or structure.
SIGN STRUCTURE
The supports, uprights, bracing and framework for the sign.
In the case of a sign structure consisting of two or more sides where
the angle formed between any of the sides or the projections thereof
exceeds 30°, each side shall be considered a separate sign structure.
SIGN SURFACE OR AREA
The entire area within a single, continuous perimeter enclosing
all elements of the sign which form an integral part of the display.
The structure supporting a sign shall not be included unless the structure
is designed in a way to form an integral background for the display.
Only one face of a double-faced sign shall be included as surface
or area of such a sign.
SIGN, TEMPORARY
A sign used for the purpose of short-term advertising limited
to 60 days.
SIGN, WALL
A sign which is attached to the wall of a building, with
the face in the plane parallel to such wall and not extending more
than 15 inches from the face of such wall.
SIGN, WINDOW
A sign maintained in or painted upon a window or which is
inside a structure not in or on a window but visible from a parking
lot or roadway.
STANDARD OUTDOOR ADVERTISING PANELS
An advertising panel structure, approximately 25 feet horizontal
and 12 feet vertical, used for the posting or painting of advertising
or public service copy.
STREET
A public way which affords the principal means of access
to abutting property, including a(n) avenue, place, way, drive, lane,
boulevard, highway, road and any other thoroughfare except an alley.
ZONING ADMINISTRATOR
The appointed Town official who is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the administration of this chapter, Chapter
179 and Chapter
A183 of the Code of the Town of Queensbury.
ZONING DISTRICT
The particular area of the Town as established and depicted
on the Official Town Zoning Map for which particular regulations governing
the area, height, use of buildings or use of land, and other regulations
relating to development or maintenance of existing uses or structures,
are uniformly applied in that area.