Williamsburg, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 21-750

Extracted standards

5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Signage

  • The outlining of all or a portion of the exterior of a building, or building windows, with lights or neon tubing shall be prohibited.

  • No sign shall display flashing or intermittent lights, or other lights of changing degrees of intensity, brightness or color.

  • Glare prohibition

    The light from any illuminated sign shall not cause direct glare into or upon any building or property other than the building or property to which the sign may be related.

  • The stringing of lights or neon tubing on site features, including but not limited to, light poles, shrubbery, trees and fences shall be prohibited, except that the stringing of white non-flashing lights on trees on private property in the downtown sign district shall be allowed. Seasonal decorations displayed between Thanksgiving and January 6 shall be exempt from this requirement.

  • Traffic hazard prohibition

    Neither the direct nor reflected light from an illuminated sign shall be located so as to create a traffic hazard to operators of motor vehicles on public thoroughfares.

From the ordinance

The light from any illuminated sign shall not cause direct glare into or upon any building or property other than the building or property to which the sign may be related.
Sec. 21-750