Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Nonresidential and mixed-use districts
Extracted standards
13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Signage
- Maximum blade sign area per linear foot of frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.1 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000./ft
The maximum area of a blade sign shall not exceed one square foot per linear foot of building frontage
- Maximum projection of blade sign above third story6 ft
Above the third story, no blade sign shall project more than six feet from the face of the building wall
- Maximum projection of blade sign on first or second story4 ft
On the first or second story, no blade sign shall project more than four feet.
- Minimum clearance above grade for blade sign8 ft
All blade signs shall be a minimum of eight feet above the grade of the adjoining pedestrian right-of-way.
- Minimum building frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. for blade sign50 ft
Blade signs are permitted for businesses in Commercial and Mixed-Use Zones with a minimum of 50 lineal feet of building frontage
- Maximum distance from freeway right-of-way for freeway-oriented sign150 ft
A freeway-oriented sign must be located no farther than 150 feet from a freeway right-of-way
- Minimum distance from municipal boundary for freeway-oriented sign500 ft
The freeway-oriented sign shall not be located within 500 feet of a municipal boundary.
- Minimum interior lot line setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for freeway-oriented sign5 ft
setback at least five feet from any other interior lot line.
- Minimum spacing between freeway-oriented signs1,000 ft
The sign shall be no closer than 1,000 feet to another freeway-oriented sign
- Freeway-oriented sign requires Minor Conditional UseConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote. Permit
all freeway-oriented signs ... shall require approval of a Minor Conditional Use Permit by the Planning Commission
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from other streets for freeway-oriented sign150 ft
Such sign shall be setback at least 150 feet from any lot line adjoining a street or roadway other than a freeway
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residential zone for freeway-oriented sign
Such sign shall be setback from a residential zone a distance that is equal to or exceeds the height of the sign, whichever is greater
- Maximum window sign area25 pct
window signs up to 25% of the window area
From the ordinance
Signs in nonresidential and mixed use districts. ... Each establishment ... may have at least one wall sign for each frontage, window or door signs up to 25 percent of the window area, one shingle or under canopy sign, and one monument sign ...