§ 17.60.4.030. Central business core district.

The following on-premise signs are authorized on property within the central business core zoning district (C-4). A sign permit is required.

A maximum of two (2) square feet of total signage for each linear foot of building frontage is permitted per premise to a maximum of two hundred (200) square feet. If the premise houses multiple tenants, the owner is responsible for allocating signage amongst the separate tenants/businesses. The following types of signs are allowed:

A.

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

1.

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

2.

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

3.

No single wall sign may exceed one hundred (100) square feet.

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Minimum vertical clearance allowances.

7.

Alley: fourteen (14) feet.

a.

Other public property: eight (8) feet.

b.

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

B.

Freestanding signs including monument signs and other low-profile signs. (See Exhibit 60-6 of this chapter.)

1.

One (1) freestanding sign per premise street frontage.

2.

Area may not exceed one hundred (100) square feet.

3.

Height limit is twenty (20) feet from finished grade of the lot.

4.

Freestanding signs must be located entirely on private property and must not overhang public property.

5.

A 20% increase in maximum freestanding sign area is granted when signage on the premise is entirely low-profile.

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. 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.

7.

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.

C.

Projecting signs over public right-of-way. Businesses with frontage on a public right-of-way are allowed one (1) projecting sign along the public right-of-way. (See Exhibit 60-7 and Exhibit 60-10 of this chapter.)

1.

Projecting signs may be used instead of, but not in addition to, freestanding signs.

2.

Projecting signs and wall signs advertising the same business may not occupy the same building frontage.

3.

A projecting sign is limited to sixteen (16) square feet plus one (1) additional square foot for each three (3) feet of linear building footage in excess of fifty (50) feet to a maximum of thirty-two (32) square feet.

4.

Projecting signs may extend no farther than six (6) feet over public property or more than two-thirds (2/3) the distance to the back of curb, whichever is less.

5.

Signs may project no farther than one (1) foot into an alley.

6.

Minimum vertical clearance allowances.

a.

Alley: fourteen (14) feet.

b.

Other public property: eight (8) feet.

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