Bluefield

The following signs are permitted in business and industrial zoning districts: (1) Wall signs. One wall sign per business establishment, not exceeding one square foot of sign area per linear foot of building frontage, with a maximum of one hundred square feet per sign. ...

Any sign erected within 100 feet of any residential zoning district shall be nonilluminated and limited to 25 square feet in area. Minimum setback of ground-mounted signs shall be five feet from any public right-of-way, service drive, or entrance.

Signs permitted in business and industrial districts.

Any sign erected within 100 feet of any residential zoning district shall be nonilluminated and limited to 25 square feet in area. Minimum setback of ground-mounted signs shall be five feet from any public right-of-way, service drive, or entrance. No business shall have more than two identification signs without approval of the zoning administrator.

Maximum number of signs per zoning lot: either one projecting sign or one ground-mounted sign on a street frontage. Maximum number of signs per business: one except for a corner unit, where one sign per street frontage is permitted. Directory sign: one up to 60 square feet in area and 20 feet in height. Wall sign: one per establishment having an individual outside entrance... The size shall be limited to one square foot per linear foot of building frontage for the establishment, up to a maximum of 60 square feet.

Center identification sign shall consist of one ground-mounted or monument-style sign per street frontage, with an area of one square foot per four linear feet of lot frontage on which the sign is to be erected, up to a maximum of 60 square feet.

Center identification sign shall consist of one ground-mounted or monument-style sign per street frontage, with an area of one square foot per four linear feet of lot frontage on which the sign is to be erected, up to a maximum of 60 square feet.

Be authorized to include changeable fuel price signs indicating the current price of fuel dispensed on the premises; and be permitted a sign area upon pumps to identify the product dispensed.

Signs erected upon private property for a period of time no greater than 60 days in one calendar year that do not exceed a total area of 24 square feet and five feet in total height shall not require the issuance of a zoning permit.

Signs erected upon private property for a period of time no greater than 60 days in one calendar year that do not exceed a total area of 24 square feet and five feet in total height shall not require the issuance of a zoning permit.

A zoning permit for a sign shall expire and become null and void if the approved sign is not completely erected within a period of six months from the date the permit was originally issued. The zoning administrator may grant one extension for a period of six months.

The following provisions of this section shall apply to signs located within a B-2, B-3, or SC-1 zoning district that are located within 2,500 feet of the center of the median strip of the four-lane primary highway known as U.S. Route 460 from the West Virginia state line to the interchange with State Route 720 and shall be located no less than 100 feet from the nearest residential zoning district.

The following provisions of this section shall apply to signs located within a B-2, B-3, or SC-1 zoning district that are located within 2,500 feet of the center of the median strip of the four-lane primary highway known as U.S. Route 460 from the West Virginia state line to the interchange with State Route 720 and shall be located no less than 100 feet from the nearest residential zoning district.

Special sign permits for properties within 2,500 feet of Route 460.

The following provisions of this section shall apply to signs located within a B-2, B-3, or SC-1 zoning district that are located within 2,500 feet of the center of the median strip of the four-lane primary highway known as U.S. Route 460 from the West Virginia state line to the interchange with State Route 720 and shall be located no less than 100 feet from the nearest residential zoning district.

The zoning administrator may authorize exceptions to the requirements described in this article so long as such exceptions and any conditions associated therewith, are approved in writing by the town manager.

The location of hotels, motels, mobile home parks, commercial amusement parks, hospitals, airports, repetitive helicopter landings and departures on the same parcel of land, borrow pits, hog farms, sanitary fill method garbage refuse sites, adult oriented businesses, tattoo parlors, fortune tellers, massage parlors, methadone clinics, other opiate treatment facilities to include, but not limited to, suboxone clinics, pawnshops, tall buildings or structures, payday loan institutions, title loan institutions, amusement arcades and electronic game rooms, bars, clubs, lounges, tobacco, smoke, or vape shops, stadiums, and other permitted uses shall require, in addition to the zoning permit and certificate of occupancy, a conditional use permit.

The location of hotels, motels, mobile home parks, commercial amusement parks, hospitals, airports, repetitive helicopter landings and departures on the same parcel of land, borrow pits, hog farms, sanitary fill method garbage refuse sites, adult oriented businesses, tattoo parlors, fortune tellers, massage parlors, methadone clinics, other opiate treatment facilities to include, but not limited to, suboxone clinics, pawnshops, tall buildings or structures, payday loan institutions, title loan institutions, amusement arcades and electronic game rooms, bars, clubs, lounges, tobacco, smoke, or vape shops, stadiums, and other permitted uses shall require, in addition to the zoning permit and certificate of occupancy, a conditional use permit.

All conditional use permit applications shall be submitted to the zoning administrator. Prior to the approval, amending or denial of a conditional use permit, a public hearing shall be held. The planning commission and town council shall have the authority to impose conditions and safeguards. Any granted conditional use permit shall become null and void within one year of the date of approval if not exercised.

Any granted conditional use permit shall become null and void within one year of the date of approval if not exercised.