Sec. 4.15.10
Extracted standards
22 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Signage
- Maximum address signs per lot3 signs
Up to three address signs per lot or establishment...
- Maximum agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. product sign area32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
the signs do not exceed 32 square feet in total sign area...
- Maximum off-site agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. product signs2 signs
if signs are erected off-site, no more than two such signs may be erected...
- Maximum auction signs per lot1 signs
One auction sign per lot on which there is a pending auction...
- Maximum bonus tenant panel area8 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
no bonus tenant panel shall exceed eight square feet in sign area.
- Maximum bonus tenant panels per shopping center4 panels
In each shopping center exceeding 50,000 square feet in gross floor area: (i) one bonus tenant panel shall be permitted for each 50,000 square feet in gross floor area, not to exceed four bonus tenant panels at the shopping center...
- Off-site bundle sign allowed by special use permitConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote.
The freestanding signage permitted may include one off-site bundle sign allowed by special use permit under section 4.15.7(b)...
- Maximum commercial flags per lot2 flags
Up to two commercial flags per lot, provided that: (i) not more than one flag may be flown on a lot, provided that if the lot is four acres or larger, then one additional flag may be flown...
- Maximum commercial flag size24 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
the flag shall not exceed 24 square feet in size...
- Maximum construction signs per lot1 signs
One construction sign per lot on which there is an active construction project...
- Electric message sign allowed by special use permitConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote.
The freestanding signage permitted may include ... one electric message sign allowed by special use permit under section 4.15.7(d).
- Maximum fuel price sign area16 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Any establishment at which gasoline or diesel fuel, or both, is dispensed shall be entitled to additional sign area to display fuel prices of up to 50 percent of the primary sign area to which it is attached, or 16 square feet, whichever is less.
- Maximum home occupationHome occupationA business run from a dwelling, permitted so long as it stays subordinate to living there. signs per lot1 signs
One home occupation sign per lot on which there is a class B home occupation or a major home occupation...
- Maximum menu sign area32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
One menu sign per establishment having an approved drive-through lane that does not exceed 32 square feet.
- Maximum noncommercial flags per lot3 flags
Up to three noncommercial flags per lot...
- Maximum noncommercial flag size24 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
the flag shall not exceed 24 square feet in size...
- Maximum noncommercial signs per lot2 signs
Up to two signs per lot containing copy that is exclusively noncommercial speech...
- Projecting and wall signs allowed
Each establishment may have both a projecting sign and a wall sign.
- Maximum real estate signs per lot1 signs
One real estate sign per lot on which either the lot or any structure thereon...
- Maximum sandwich board sign area8 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
One sandwich board sign per establishment that does not exceed eight square feet.
- Maximum warning signs per lot
Warning signs as required by law or as determined to be necessary to protect public health or safety.
- Maximum window sign coverage25 pct
Window signs, provided that the aggregate area of all window signs on each window or door does not exceed 25 percent of the total area of the window or door.
From the ordinance
The maximum number of signs permitted, sign area, and sign height, and the minimum sign setback are as follows for each sign within the Planned Unit Development (PUD), Downtown Crozet (DCD) and Neighborhood Model (NMD) districts: