§ 17.60.4.020. Commercial and industrial districts.

The following on-premise signs are authorized on property in commercial zoning districts (C-2 or C-3), or industrial zoning districts (I-1, I-2 or AI) subject to a sign permit. Property contained within the central business core zoning district (C-4) is regulated by Section 17.60.4.030 of this chapter. The Riverfront Corridor District is regulated by Section 17.60.4.040. Premises exceeding 50,000 square feet are regulated by Section 17.60.4.050.

Maximum sign allocation for each commercial and/or industrial premise under this section equals the standard wall signage allocation plus two hundred (200) square feet maximum freestanding signage. If the premise houses multiple tenants, the owner is responsible for allocating signage amongst the separate tenants/businesses.

A.

Wall signs. (See Exhibit 60-1 Exhibit 60-5 and Exhibit 60-11 of this chapter.)

1.

A maximum of ten (10) percent of each frontage building wall, excluding service delivery areas and parapets, may be covered with wall signage.

2.

Each premise is allowed a minimum of twenty-four (24) square feet of wall signage.

3.

Maximum projection - excluding awnings: twenty-four (24) inches.

4.

Wall signs may be placed no higher than six (6) inches below the top of the wall or parapet.

5.

Wall signs may not obstruct required windows and/or required exits.

B.

Freestanding signs including pole signs, monument signs and low-profile signs. (See Exhibit 60-7 and Exhibit 60-9 of this chapter.)

1.

A perimeter separation of two hundred fifty (250) feet is required between any two (2) freestanding signs on each premise.

2.

A maximum area of one (1) square foot per linear foot of premise frontage facing one (1) street or avenue is allowed. A maximum of two hundred (200) square feet of total freestanding signage per premise is allowed.

3.

Height limit is twenty-five (25) feet above finished grade of the lot or twenty-five (25) feet above the centerline of the public right-of-way, measured at right angle of the roadway within one hundred (100) feet of the sign.

4.

Freestanding signs must be located entirely on private property.

5.

Signs may not project over public property.

6.

When a freestanding sign structure is installed, the base of the sign must be landscaped. If the freestanding sign is located within a vehicular use area, the landscaped area must be designed to protect sign base supports from vehicular incursion with a minimum six (6) feet curbed landscape island or protective barrier. Support protection examples include bollards, stones or curbing that are integrated with the landscaping. Landscaping may contain trees, shrubs, groundcovers, perennial or annual flowers, turf and organic or inorganic mulches. Living plant materials must cover at least seventy-five (75) percent of the landscaped area. If irrigation is not readily available non-living landscape features are allowed.

7.

A twenty (20) percent increase in the maximum freestanding sign area is available to a premise when signage is entirely low-profile. (See Exhibit 60-4 of this chapter.)

8.

If a premise is subsequently subdivided after a freestanding sign allocation has been established for the premise, the subsequently created parcels shall share the freestanding sign allocation; shall share the same freestanding sign pole or monument; and, the owner/subdivider is responsible for allocating the freestanding signage amongst the separately created parcels at the time of each sale or lease.

(Ord. 3139, 2016; Ord. No. 3056, § 1, 8-17-2010)