Land use · Staunton, Virginia

Business sign

Named in 1 of this ordinance’s zoning districts.

How this ordinance defines it

The operative definition is the local one. Codes routinely subdivide a category into tiers — “day care 2, family”, “group home 2” — and attach different permissions to each, so only Staunton’s own text settles what this covers.

Chapter 2Reads like a definition

a lot and held under single ownership, such as universities, hospitals, and institutions. " Business sign " means any sign advertising a business conducted within the building or structure, or upon the real property, on which the sign

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in the I-1 light industrial district. (3) Any of the following uses: (a) Business sign as regulated in Chapter 18.140 SCC. (b) Building material sales yard and lumber yard, including the sale of rock, sand, gravel,

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Two pole signs not exceeding 30 square feet each in surface area. Other business signs , the aggregate area of which does not exceed one square foot for each one linear foot of lot adjoining a public

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Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right1

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.