Agenda - Planning Commission - 06/03/2010

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Municode Page 9 of 11 shall be counted against the maximum allowable sign area for the subject parcel. (5) Menu board. Menu board for drive-up or walk-up lane of a drive-in business are allowed up to a maximum of 50 square feet of total signage. Menu boards are allowed a message on one side only and cannot contain an advertising message. (6) Directional signs. a Directional or instructiohal signs are permitted in acwrdance with section 117-463(1). j b. 1 Parking lot directignal signs designating parking area entrances and exits are limited to one sign for each i entrance and/or exit and shall not exceed four square feet for each exposed face. Parking lot directional signs shall not project higher than five feet in height, as measured from the established grade of the parking area to which such signs are accessory. a I Parking lot instructional signs designating the conditions of use or identifying parking areas shall not exceed eight square feet and shall not project higher than ten feet in height for wall signs and seven feet in height for ground signs, as measured from the established grade of the parking area to which such signs are accessory. d. Window signs are restricted to 30 percent of the area of the window in which the sign is to be displayed. (b) Shopping center signs. In accerdance with section 117-54, the developer shall submit a sign plan for approval, -drawn to scale with elevations, at the time application is made for site plan approval. The sign plan shall include but not tie limited to the following information: number of signs, type of signs, sign sizes, type of construction materials, sign messages, and proposed sign locations. i .. _ i (Code 1978, § 9.12.08; Ortl. No. 94-02, 2.28.1994; Ord. No. 03.31, 9-15-2003; Ord. No. 08.07, § 2, 2.12-2008; Ord. lJo. 08-25, § 2, f 8d2-2008) ., ._ .. :: Sec. 117-520. = E-1 and E-2 Employment Districts. (a) Wall, canopy ormarquee sign. Total sign area may not exceed 15 percent of the front building facade. Sign height shall not exceed the top of the parapet wall or, if no parapet wall, sign height shall not exceed the height of the eaves. A wall, canopy or marquee sign may be located on the outermost wall of any principal building but shall not project more than 16 inches from the wall to which the sign is to be affixed. Where a principal building is devoted to two or more permitted uses, the operator of each such use may install a wall sign upon his proportionate share of the building wall to which the sign is to be affixed. The maximum gross surface area of each such wall sign shall be i determined by calculating the proportionate share of the area of the building wall, including doors and windows to i which the sign is to be affixed and applying such proportion to the total permitted wall sign aggregate gross surface area for the building. The gross surface area of a wall sign maybe increased by ten percent if such wall sign: Clonsists only of individual, outlined alphabetic, numeric, and/or symbolic characters without background except provided by the building surface to which the sign is to be affixed; and (2) ~ Any illumination, if any, is achieved through shielded illumination, shielded silhouette lighting, or shielded spot lighting but not any lighting where the light source is visible orexposed on the face or'sides of the characters. (b) Ground signs. There shall not be more than one ground sign for each parcel. The gross surface area of a ground sign shall not exceed 100 square feet for each exposed face nor exceed an aggregate gross surface area of 200 square feet. (c) Directional signs. 1 Directional or instructional signs are permitted in accordance with section 117-463(1). P2arking lot directional signs designating parking area entrances and exits are limited to one sign for each entrance and/or exit and shall not exceed four square feet for each exposed face. Parking lot directional signs shall not project higher than five feet in height, as measured from the established grade of the parking area to which such j signs are accessory. (3) Parking lot instructional signs designating the conditions of use or identification of parking areas shall not exceed eight square feet and shall not project higher than ten feet in height for wall signs and seven feet in height for ground signs, as measured from the established grade of the parking area to which such signs are accessory. (d) lMndov/ signs. Window signs shall not exceed 30 percent of the area of the window in which the sign is proposed to http://library.municode.com/print.aspx?clientID=14286&HTMRequest=http%3a%2f%2fli... 5/24/2010 31