Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Signage
- Maximum incidental sign area6 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
All buildings may provide wall-mounted incidental signage ... provided they do not exceed six square feet in area.
- Maximum wall sign area for non-street walls5 pct
Maximum area (Walls not fronting on a public street): Five percent of wall area.
- Maximum wall sign area per lineal foot of street frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.2 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000./ft
Maximum area: Two square feet for each lineal foot of wall facing a public street.
- Maximum window sign area20 pct
Signs may be placed on or behind windows but at no such time shall exceed 20 percent of the window area.
- Minimum sidewalk clear zone for sandwich board signs5 ft
Sandwich board signs may be placed on sidewalks with a minimum clear zone on the sidewalk of five feet.
- Monument sign setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from right-of-way25 ft
Monument signs are permitted only for commercial buildings setback further than 25 feet from the right-of-way and civic buildings.
From the ordinance
Wall sign maximum area: Two square feet for each lineal foot of wall facing a public street.