Signs in residence districts (RFR-1, RFR-2, OSPL)

The following regulations shall apply in the RFR-1, RFR-2 and OSPL Residence Districts:

• A. Permitted signs:
  • (1) One sign, no greater than two square feet in area, displaying the name and address of the occupant or identifying a permitted use or accessory use or identifying or regulating private property or a private right-of-way.
  • (2) One sign, not larger than nine square feet in area, for an agricultural, religious, educational, recreational, communal, medical, professional, governmental or utility use or identifying lawful nonconforming uses. This shall include temporary signs advertising the sale or lease of the premises.
• B. Locations of signs.
  • (1) No signs shall be placed closer than 15 feet to a side or rear lot line and five feet to a front lot line.
  • (2) No portion of any sign shall be located within a street right-of-way or within the corner triangle described in § 400-120 of this chapter.
  • (3) Signs shall not be erected or affixed to a utility pole, traffic or regulating sign, tree, shrub, rock or other natural object.
  • (4) No sign shall project more than 10 feet above average grade level or higher than the roofline (ridge) of a building, whichever is less.
  • (5) Freestanding signs shall provide an open unobstructed space of at least six feet from the grade to the bottom of the sign.
• C. Lighting of signs. Signs may be lighted only be an external, continuous incandescent white light, downward shielded and of no more than a maximum of 20 footcandles at the surface.