Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Signage
- Abandoned billboard removal30 days
If a nonconforming billboard remains blank for a continuous period of 180 days, that billboard shall be deemed abandoned and shall, within 30 days after such abandonment, be altered to comply with this article or be removed
- Abandoned nonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. sign removal180 days
If a nonconforming sign other than a billboard advertises a business, service, commodity, accommodation, attraction, or other enterprise or activity that is no longer operating or being offered or conducted, that sign shall be considered abandoned and shall be removed within 180 days after such abandonment
- NonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. sign alteration prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Such signs shall not be enlarged, extended or structurally altered, or reconstructed. No nonconforming sign shall be moved on the same site.
- NonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. signs may continue
Subject to the remaining restrictions of this section, nonconforming signs that were otherwise lawful on the effective date of this article may be continued.
From the ordinance
Subject to the remaining restrictions of this section, nonconforming signs that were otherwise lawful on the effective date of this article may be continued.