Building permit not required
The following signs do not require a building permit from the zoning enforcement officer and shall not be counted toward the maximum number of signs specified in section 82-1405 or section 82-1407. However, these signs are still subject to the design standards within this chapter unless specifically noted otherwise. Violation of applicable standards shall constitute a zoning violation and be addressed as such.
A. One or more wall signs affixed to a place of residence and not to exceed in aggregate two square feet. Such sign or signs are traditionally used for building identification for a residence, home occupation or other legal use, nameplates, or historical plaques noting the date of construction or other such historical information but may be used for any other legal communication desired.
B. Real estate signs advertising sale or rent, or signs naming the builder, architect, developer or engineer of a project in progress, placed on the premises, not exceeding eight square feet. All such signs must be removed within seven days of sale, rental, or completion of the project for which the sign was placed.
C. Signs posted for the purposes of protecting public health and safety and deterring intentional or unintentional illegal activity. These signs may include, but shall not be limited to those prohibiting trespass, hunting and the like, signs warning of danger, such as high voltage, and necessary public utility signs. These signs shall not exceed two square feet in area.
D. Normal displays of merchandise in windows shall not be considered signs.
E. Temporary signs posted for the purposes of protecting public health and safety including, but not limited to, those that would direct traffic in the presence of potentially hazardous conditions and any other governmental signs erected by a public safety agency in the discharge of any governmental function. Illumination of such signs may deviate from the standards of section 82-1408 where such deviation is integral to the protection of public health and safety.
F. Signs associated with historical places or points of interest and other such interpretive signs, erected by governmental authority or the like (such as the Jamestown Historical Society), not to exceed a total area of 12 square feet.
G. Signs posted for the purposes of protecting public health and safety as related to the circulation of automobiles, bicyclists, and pedestrians. Individual signs posted for this purpose shall not exceed an area of more than two square feet. Examples of these signs include, but are not limited to, those indicating entrance, exit or parking, erected on a premises for the direction of people and vehicles.
H. Church, school, and public uses may have one ground sign, not to exceed a total area of 12 square feet. Public schools and other public uses may have, in addition, one wall sign that may run the horizontal length of the front façade of the building but not to exceed a vertical height of two feet. Where any of these signs are illuminated, illumination shall comply with section 82-1408.
I. Standard gasoline or other fuel pumps bearing thereon any information required by state or federal law.
(Ord. of 2-3-2025(1), § 1(Exh. A))