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Sec. 98-63. Zone restrictions.

(a) Residential districts R-E, SF-1, SF-2, SF-3, SF-4, MF-2, MF-4, MF-12, MF-16, MF-24, O-1, MHP.

(1) All residential districts:

a. All signs shall be displayed without lighting having a primary purpose or primary effect of lighting the sign.

b. All signs shall be located on premises currently used and controlled by the person having use and control of the sign message.

(2) R-E, SF-1, SF-2, SF-3 districts:

a. No signs shall be erected, used or maintained except exempt signs as provided by section 98-36 and except one sign per parcel denoting the name of a subdivision, which sign (one per use unit) shall not exceed 128 square feet in sign face area and except signs denoting uses per use units 2, 3 or 4, which signs shall not exceed 32 square feet in total sign area.

b. No home occupation signs are allowed.

(3) SF-4, MF-2, MF-4, MF-12, MF-16, MF-24, MHP:

a. No signs are permitted except those exempt per section 98-36 and as to each public right-of-way abutted by any lot or parcel:

1. Any sign type denoting only the name and address of an apartment building, housing complex, subdivision or mobile home park, which shall not exceed a sign area of 128 square feet and a height of 12 feet;

2. Any sign type located on business premises, which sign does not exceed six square feet per sign-face area and 12 square feet in sign area and 12 feet in height; and

b. No more than one temporary sign or banner shall be displayed per each public right-of-way abutted by the lot or parcel of any business, park, housing complex or subdivision.

c. No home occupation signs are allowed.

(b) Neighborhood office O-1; neighborhood commercial C-1; and agricultural A-1. No signs are permitted except those exempt per section 98-36 (subject to section 98-61), and:

(1) Each lot or parcel shall contain, for each separately licensed business located thereon, no more than:

a. One nonflashing wall or projecting sign per building frontage. The sign area shall not exceed 32 square feet. Sign height shall not exceed 40 feet;

b. One temporary sign or banner; and

c. One real estate sign. The sign area shall not exceed 32 square feet. Any billboard, wall sign or projecting sign duly permitted hereunder may advertise real estate.

(2) Each lot or parcel shall contain no more than one billboard per every 1,320 feet of frontage on a public thoroughfare or fraction thereof, except that no billboards shall be allowed in any O-1 or A-1 district.

(c) Downtown C-3; planned commercial C-4; warehouse W-1; light industrial I-1; heavy industrial I-2; planned industrial I-3. No signs are permitted except those exempt per section 98-36 (subject to section 98-61), and:

(1) Each lot or parcel shall contain, for each separately licensed business located thereon, no more than:

a. One nonflashing, projecting or wall sign per building frontage. The sign area shall not exceed 300 square feet. Sign height shall not exceed 60 feet;

b. One nonflashing, freestanding sign no larger than 400 square feet per sign face;

c. One temporary sign or banner; and

d. One real estate sign. The sign area shall not exceed 32 square feet. Any billboard, freestanding sign, wall or projecting sign duly permitted hereunder may advertise real estate.

(2) Each lot or parcel shall contain no more than one billboard per every 1,320 feet of frontage on a public thoroughfare, or fraction thereof, except that no billboards shall be allowed in any C-3 district.

(3) Special visibility district: The special visibility district consists of a district determined by the planning commission and designated on the zoning map by ordinance enacted by the city council, in which signs of a maximum height of 100 feet and maximum sign face area of 300 square feet shall be allowed.

(d) General commercial (C-2); open display district (C-5). No signs are permitted except those exempt per section 98-36 (subject to section 98-61), and:

(1) Each lot or parcel shall contain, for each separately licensed business located thereon, no more than:

a. One nonflashing, projecting or wall sign per building frontage. The sign area shall not exceed 300 square feet. Sign height shall not exceed 60 feet;

b. One nonflashing, freestanding sign no larger than 400 square feet per sign face;

c. One temporary sign or banner; and

d. One real estate sign. The sign area shall not exceed 32 square feet. Any billboard, freestanding sign, wall or projecting sign duly permitted hereunder may advertise real estate.

(2) Each lot or parcel with street frontage may have one nonflashing, freestanding sign no larger than 400 square feet per sign face for use by all businesses located on any adjacent property, provided the adjacent property owner has a separately licensed business and a properly executed and recorded easement or lease agreement, or is the owner of the property on which the sign is to be located.

(3) Each lot or parcel shall contain no more than one billboard per every 1,320 feet of frontage on a public thoroughfare, or fraction thereof.

(4) Special visibility district: The special visibility district consists of a district determined by the planning commission and designated on the zoning map by ordinance enacted by the city council, in which signs of a maximum height of 100 feet and maximum sign face area of 300 square feet shall be allowed.

(Code 1973, § 28-6; Ord. No. 3074, §§ 2, 3, 3-13-01; Ord. No. 3534, § 1, 7-13-04; Ord. No. 3770, § 1, 10-11-05; Ord. No. 4102, § 3, 8-28-07; Ord. No. 4153, § 3, 1-8-08)

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