Ordinance - #25-07 - 05/13/2025 - Laserfiche WebLink

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1 d. Size. Off-premises digital billboard signs shall not exceed 700 square feet in sur- 2 face area per sign surface. 3 e. Number of surfaces. Off-premises digital billboard signs shall not contain more 4 than two sign surfaces. Said sign surfaces shall face in opposite directions with 5 an interior angle not to exceed 45 degrees. 6 f. Height. Off-premises digital billboard signs shall not exceed 50 feet in height as 7 measured from the established grade of the site upon which the off-premises 8 signs and digital billboards is located. 9 g. Conditional use. Off-premises digital billboard signs shall be processed in ac- 10 cordance with the procedures established for conditional use permits in Section 11 106-230 of City Code. 12 (3) Off-premises digital billboard sign overlay district performance standards: The off-prem- 13 ises digital billboard sign overlay district is hereby established as a separate zoning dis- 14 trict within the city. Within the off-premises digital billboard sign overlay district, off-prem- 15 ises digital billboard signs are permitted subject to the following conditions: 16 a. No off-premises digital billboard signs shall be erected that, by reason of position, 17 shape, movement, or color, interferes with the proper functioning of a traffic sig- 18 nal or which constitutes a traffic hazard. 19 b. Off-premises digital billboard signs shall not be located so as to extend over any 20 property line or within a drainage and utility easement, or within 15 feet of any 21 point of vehicular access from a parcel to a public roadway. 22 c. Off-premises digital billboard signs must have an architecturally enhanced base. 23 d. Off-premises digital billboard signs must have minimum display duration of seven 24 seconds. Such display shall contain static messages only; change from one 25 static message to another shall be instantaneous without any special effects, 26 through dissolve or fade transitions, or with the use of another subtle transition 27 technique that does not have the appearance of moving text or images. 28 e. Off-premises digital billboard signs must be rectangular in shape and all mes- 29 sages must be contained within the off-premises digital billboard frame. 30 f. All off-premises digital billboard signs shall have ambient light monitors installed 31 as part of the off-premises digital billboard sign and shall, at all times, allow such 32 monitors to automatically adjust the brightness level of the electronic sign based 33 on light conditions. 34 g. Off-premises digital billboard signs shall meet the following brightness standards: 35 i. Off-premises digital billboard signs shall not exceed 7,500 nits (candelas 36 per square meter) between the hours of civil sunrise and civil sunset and 37 shall not exceed 500 nits (candelas per square meter) between the hours 38 of civil sunset and civil sunrise as measured from the face of the sign. 39 ii. The light level shall not exceed 0.3-foot candles above ambient light as 40 measured from a pre-set distance depending on sign size. Measuring dis- 41 tance shall be determined using the following equation: the square root of 42 the message center sign area multiplied by 100. Example: 12 square foot 43 sign √(12 × 100) = 34.6 feet measuring distance. 44 h. Off-premises digital billboard signs shall have a fully functional monitoring off 45 switch system that shuts the dynamic display off-premises sign off when the Attachment A – Ordinance #25-07 Page 29 of 30