Definitions. As used in this article, the following
terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ACTIVITY
Each unique occupant or tenant of a site or building occupied
by one or more nonresidential uses. As examples: a multitenant commercial
building (strip center) with three tenant spaces has three activities;
a hardware store or gas station/convenience store without any separate
leasable space for another business entity has only one activity;
and a commercial building with separate leasable spaces for two businesses
under different ownership has two activities. In the final example
and similar instances, each business must lease at least 25% of the
gross floor area of the building, and any residential use in such
building is not an additional activity. A product line is not an activity,
though an activity may choose to advertise a product line within its
permitted signage.
[Added 3-3-2020 by Ord.
No. 20-03]
AWNING
A temporary hood or cover, which projects from the wall of
the building, which can be retracted, folded, or collapsed against
the face of a supporting structure.
BUSINESS SIGN
A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity,
service or entertainment conducted, sold, offered, or manufactured
upon the premises where the sign is located.
COMMUNITY INFORMATION SIGN
Any permanent sign, which may have changeable copy and which
is limited to the display of information of interest to the general
community regarding scheduled public events and public activities,
and is not to be part of a business sign.
DIRECTIONAL SIGN
A sign, which indicates only the name and direction to a
facility. Directional signs shall be limited to government facilities,
library, schools, churches, historical sites, and entrances and exits
to parking lots.
GROUND AND/POLE SIGN
Any sign, which is supported by structures or supports in
or upon the ground and independent of support from any building.
GROUP SIGN
Any sign displaying the collective name of a group of uses,
such as the title of a shopping center, industrial park and its tenants,
or multiple tenants of a single building. Portions of a group sign
containing names of individual tenants shall be considered as part
of the area of a group sign.
OFF-PREMISES ADVERTISING SIGN
A sign which directs the attention of the public to an activity
conducted or product sold or offered at a location not on the same
premises where such sign is located. For purposes of this article,
easements and other appurtenances and noncontiguous parcels under
the same ownership shall be considered off the premises of the parcel
of land on which the business or activity is located or conducted.
The following types of signs are excluded from the definition of an
"off-premises advertising sign":
[Amended 3-3-2020 by Ord.
No. 20-03]
(a)
Signs that are not more than 12 square feet in area per side,
no more than six feet in height above normal grade, and providing
only directions to an activity.
(b)
Governmental, community entryway, and directional and wayfinding
signs erected by a public agency, including temporary, changeable,
and variable messages on such signs.
(c)
Temporary off-premises signs advertising temporary activities,
where each such sign is specifically approved by the Building Inspector
prior to its installation, and as promptly removed following the completion
of the associated temporary activity.
(d)
Signs for shopping centers and business or industrial parks
that are located within the development, but may or may not be located
on the lot in which one or more occupants indicated on the sign are
located.
(e)
Not more than one sandwich sign per nonresidential building,
provided that there is not adequate space available on the premises
to place the sign on private property in a manner that is visible
to the public, the sign is placed directly in front of the business
to which it is related or on real property adjacent to the nearest
street intersection, no part of the sign is any closer than three
feet from the face of the public street curb, and where located on
a sidewalk a minimum of four feet in width of unobstructed travel
way remains available in all directions at all times.
PORTABLE/TEMPORARY SIGN
Any sign not permanently attached to the ground, intended
to be displayed for a short period of time, and is designed to be
easily moved from one location to another. This includes, but is not
limited to, real estate signs, political signs; banners.
PROJECTING SIGN
Any sign extending more than 18 inches, but less than five
feet from the face of a wall or building.
SANDWICH SIGN
A movable sign of not greater than six square feet per side
and six feet in height above normal grade; serving a nonresidential
use; placed by hand outside the building while the use is open; removed
at the time the use closes each day; self-supporting and stable even
on windy days because of its design; and located on premises or in
certain off-premises locations per the definition of "off-premises
advertising sign." There shall be not more than one sandwich sign
per lot.
[Amended 3-3-2020 by Ord.
No. 20-03]
SIGN
Anything that promotes, calls attention to or invites patronage
(or anything similar to the aforementioned) to a business, location
or product, including balloons, banners, streamers, strings of light
bulbs, (excluding Christmas lights).
TEMPORARY SIGN
Any sign not permanently attached to the ground or a structure,
intended to be displayed for a short period of time, and designed
to be easily moved from one location to another or discarded after
short-term use, but not including a sandwich sign, political sign,
or holiday decorations.
[Added 3-3-2020 by Ord.
No. 20-03]
WALL SIGN
Any sign attached to or erected on the wall of a building
or structure, and projecting not more than 18 inches from the wall.