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no detached sign shall exceed a height of 15 feet.

A sign, limited in area to 12 square feet, advertising products raised or made on the premises. A sign, limited in area to 12 square feet, for identification of a farm or estate or a subdivision or its occupants. A sign, limited in area to 32 square feet, for a church bulletin board or identification of permitted public or semi-public uses, wildlife reservations, recreational uses, or clubs.

A sign, limited in area to 32 square feet, for a church bulletin board or identification of permitted public or semi-public uses, wildlife reservations, recreational uses, or clubs. Temporary signs at appropriate locations, on or off the premises, for direction of the traveling public, truck deliveries and employees to an activity or event, a church, school, historic place, subdivision or community, a construction site or excavation, airport, or other center of employment or visitor center or recreation facility in an isolated area of the county, limited in area to 32 square feet and subject to approval of location, design, and wording, by the administrator. Projecting signs, if there are no marquee or detached signs, one for each business on the premises, with sign area limited to 12 square feet.

Off-premises signs shall only be permitted in commercial or industrial districts. Such signs shall be limited in area to no more than 288 square feet. Digital display, or rotating or any other displays that change messages shall be prohibited.

The intensity at adjoining streets or residential properties shall not exceed 0.5 foot candles. No lighting fixture pole shall exceed a height of 15 feet in an R-1 or R-2 Residence District or 30 feet in a B-1 or B-2 Local Business District.

All exterior lighting fixtures shall be designed, located and arranged so as not to direct glare on adjoining streets or residential properties. The intensity at adjoining streets or residential properties shall not exceed 0.5 foot candles.

Existing trees eight inches or more in diameter measured at breast height (four and one-half feet from ground level) shall be given high priority in determining the location of open space, structures, underground utilities, walks, and paved areas.

The dimensions of the parking area and individual parking spaces shall provide for the minimum dimensions set forth in the off-street parking plan table shown below, except that parking spaces in gravel or similarly surfaced parking lots shall be ten feet wide by 20 feet long.

A loading space is a space within the main building or on the same lot, providing for the standing, loading, or unloading of trucks, having minimum area of 540 square feet, minimum width of 12 feet, a minimum depth of 35 feet, and a vertical clearance of at least 15 feet.

The maximum slope of any required buffer yard shall be 2:1 (Horizontal : Vertical).