Roanoke

Inflatable signs, laser light or image projection signs, or searchlight or beacon signs shall be permitted as freestanding temporary signs, provided such signs meet the following requirements: (1) Permits for such signs shall not be issued unless the applicant provides documentation from the Roanoke Regional Airport and medical helicopter patient transportation providers within the City limits of noninterference with established routes; (2) Permits for such signs shall be limited to seven (7) days per calendar year per lot.

A public service message board shall not exceed twenty-five (25) feet in height

A public service message board shall not exceed four hundred fifty (450) square feet of sign area

A public service message board shall have a minimum setback of five (5) feet from any public right-of-way or lot line

The copy on a public service message board shall not change or move more than once every six (6) seconds.

No more than one (1) public service message board shall be permitted per lot frontage; ... A public service message board shall not exceed twenty-five (25) feet in height; ... A public service message board shall not exceed four hundred fifty (450) square feet of sign area; ... A public service message board shall have a minimum setback of five (5) feet from any public right-of-way or lot line; ... The copy on a public service message board shall not change or move more than once every six (6) seconds.

The maximum height for any outdoor advertising sign shall be twenty-five (25) feet.

No outdoor advertising sign shall be erected as follows: (A) Within three hundred (300) feet of the boundary line of any residential district within the City

Within two hundred fifty (250) feet of the property line of any public school, public library, place of worship, museum, or public park

Within three hundred fifty (350) feet of any outdoor advertising sign on the same side of the street

Within two hundred fifty (250) feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of I-581 and the Roy L. Webber Expressway (Southwest Expressway)

Within six hundred sixty (660) feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of the Blue Ridge Parkway

Along an arterial or collector street within five hundred (500) feet of any point in the City at which the City's municipal corporation boundary is intersected by the arterial or collector street.

The maximum height for any outdoor advertising sign shall be twenty-five (25) feet. No outdoor advertising sign structure shall have more than two (2) sign faces and no two (2) such sign faces shall be separated by an interior angle of more than forty-five (45) degrees. No outdoor advertising sign shall be erected within three hundred (300) feet of the boundary line of any residential district within the City; within two hundred fifty (250) feet of the property line of any public school, public library, place of worship, museum, or public park; within three hundred fifty (350) feet of any outdoor advertising sign on the same side of the street; within two hundred fifty (250) feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of I-581 and the Roy L. Webber Expressway (Southwest Expressway); within six hundred sixty (660) feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of the Blue Ridge Parkway; or along an arterial or collector street within five hundred (500) feet of any point in the City at which the City's municipal corporation boundary is intersected by the arterial or collector street.

For nonconforming, nonresidential uses in residential districts, one (1) building-mounted sign shall be permitted, provided such sign shall not exceed six (6) square feet in sign area, shall not be illuminated, and shall not be a changeable copy sign or an electronic readerboard.

For nonconforming, nonresidential uses in residential districts, one (1) building-mounted sign shall be permitted, provided such sign shall not exceed six (6) square feet in sign area, shall not be illuminated, and shall not be a changeable copy sign or an electronic readerboard.

Permitted sign area for freestanding signs that is not used on a lot may be allocated to increase the permitted sign area for building-mounted signs on the same lot.

The maximum gross floor area occupied by a workshop shall be limited to ten thousand (10,000) square feet in all zoning districts. All processing, manufacturing, and assembly shall occur within a fully enclosed building.