§ 6.5. Signs in C-1 limited business district.

In the [C-1] districts, signs are permitted subject to the following regulations:

6.501. All signs permitted in the R districts [are permitted].

6.502. The total area of all business signs on a building or lot shall not exceed 150 square feet or the sum of three square feet for each lineal foot of lot frontage, whichever is the greater. No single business sign surface may exceed 300 square feet in area, nor shall two or more smaller signs be so arranged and integrated as to create a surface area in excess of 300 square feet.

6.503. Advertising sign structures shall be limited to not more than one structure for a lot of 100-foot frontage or less, and to one additional structure for each 100 feet of additional lot frontage. Such structure may contain not more than two signs per facing nor exceed 55 feet in length, and no advertising sign may exceed 300 square feet in area. No advertising sign shall be erected within 50 feet of an adjoining residence district if designed to face into such district.

6.504. Coordinated shopping centers. Each coordinated shopping center may have one incidental or freestanding identification sign for each street frontage, set back at least 20 feet from the front property line and announcing only the name of the shopping center and the hours of business.

6.505 Prohibited, "Changeable electronic variable message signs" (CEVMS) are hereby prohibited in the National Register Residential Historic District (East Main Street); the Downtown Commercial Historic District; as well as zoning districts C-1; C-2; R-1; R-2; R-3; R-4; R-5 and R-6.

(Ord. No. 2008-10, § 2, 11-18-08)