A-1
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right3
Conditional / special use3
- wind farm
- new construction towers
- wind energy systems (>50 ft, >2 per parcel, lighted, or with objections)
Accessory40
- Administrative services
- Agricultural services
- Agriculture
- Amateur radio tower
- Bed-and-breakfast
- Club, hunt
- Club, private
- Commercial feedlots
- Community recreation
- Composting
- Crisis center
- Custom manufacturing
- Domestic chickens
- Family day-care home
- Farm employee housing
- Fish hatchery
- Forestry operations
- Garden center
- Home beauty/barber salon
- Home occupation, Type I
- Home occupation, Type II
- Intensive farming facility
- Kennel, commercial
- Kennel, private
- Livestock sales/auction
- Manufactured home
- Manufactured home, accessory
- Park-and-ride facility
- Post office
- Public maintenance and service facility
- Public parks and recreation areas
- Religious assembly
- Residential human care facility
- Single-family dwelling
- Stable, commercial
- Stable, private
- Utility services
- Veterinary hospital/clinic
- Wayside stand
- Winery
Extracted standards
9 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Signage
- Building-mounted sign max area for long walls
Signs on building walls longer than 100 linear feet shall not exceed one sign equal to one square foot of sign area for every 1/2 linear foot of building frontage, measured corner to corner.
- Building-mounted sign max area per wall40 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The aggregate face area of all signs on any one wall of the building shall not exceed 40 square feet, unless the building wall is longer than 100 linear feet.
- Home occupationHome occupationA business run from a dwelling, permitted so long as it stays subordinate to living there. Type I no sign
Home occupation, Type I does not permit signage of any type.
- Home occupationHome occupationA business run from a dwelling, permitted so long as it stays subordinate to living there. Type II sign max area2 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
One sign announcing a permitted home occupation, Type II, will be allowed for each street on which the lot abuts. Each sign shall not exceed two square feet in area. Such signs shall not be illuminated.
- Other permitted uses max aggregate sign area32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Signs for other permitted uses shall be permitted when such signs do not exceed an aggregate area of 32 square feet for each use.
- Projecting sign projection max4 ft
Projecting signs or suspended signs mounted perpendicular to the building may project a maximum of four feet beyond the face of the building and must allow for a minimum of eight feet of clearance from the bottom of the sign to the average grade.
- Roof sign projection max15 inches
Building-mounted signs (roof signs) shall not project more than 15 inches beyond the face of the building.
- Maximum sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.10 ft
Sign height shall not exceed 10 feet above average grade.
- Subdivision identification sign max area100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
One subdivision identification sign not exceeding 100 square feet may be erected at each main entrance to the development.
From the ordinance
Signs in A-1, R-1, R-2 and R-3 Districts. Signs pertaining only to the uses conducted on the premises will be permitted, subject to the following regulations: One sign announcing a permitted home occupation, Type II, will be allowed for each street on which the lot abuts. Each sign shall not exceed two square feet in area. Such signs shall not be illuminated. Home occupation, Type I does not permit signage of any type. Signs for other permitted uses shall be permitted when such signs do not exceed an aggregate area of 32 square feet for each use. Such signs may be illuminated by either backlighting or direct light, provided no light from any illuminated sign shall cause direct glare onto any adjoining property or public right-of-way. One subdivision identification sign not exceeding 100 square feet may be erected at each main entrance to the development. Building-mounted signs (roof signs) shall face only upon an abutting street or an abutting parking lot on the same parcel where the sign is located. The aggregate face area of all signs on any one wall of the building shall not exceed 40 square feet, unless the building wall is longer than 100 linear feet. Signs on building walls longer than 100 linear feet shall not exceed one sign equal to one square foot of sign area for every 1/2 linear foot of building frontage, measured corner to corner. Building-mounted signs (roof signs) shall not project more than 15 inches beyond the face of the building. Projecting signs or suspended signs mounted perpendicular to the building may project a maximum of four feet beyond the face of the building and must allow for a minimum of eight feet of clearance from the bottom of the sign to the average grade. Sign height shall not exceed 10 feet above average grade.