Article 7-7 SIGN AREA AND HEIGHT
A. SIGN AREA. Sign area shall be measured as follows:
1. Sign copy mounted on a panel of a monument sign or other freestanding type sign shall be measured as that area encompassing the panel. The base of a freestanding monument sign shall not be calculated as sign area unless said base contains signage (see definition of a sign).
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2. Sign copy mounted as individual letters and/or graphics on a building wall or other structure that has not been painted, textured or otherwise altered to provide a distinctive background for the sign copy shall be measured as a sum of the smallest rectangles that will enclose each word and each graphic in the total sign copy.
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SIGN AREA WHEN BACKGROUND NOT PART OF SIGN
3. Sign copy mounted on a background panel or area distinctively painted, textured or constructed as a background for the sign copy shall be measured as the smallest rectangle that will enclose both the sign copy and background area together.
4. Multi-face signs shall be measured as follows:
a. Where a sign has two or more faces, if the distance between the two parallel faces does not exceed four feet or the interior angle between the two non-parallel sign faces is 60 degrees or less, the area of the sign will be the area of one face only. If the distance between the two parallel faces exceeds four feet or the interior angle is greater than 60 degrees, the sign area shall be the sum of the area of the two faces.
b. Where a sign has three or more faces, the area of the sign shall be calculated as 50 percent of the sum of the area of all faces.
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c. Where a sign is a spherical, free-form, sculptural, figurative or other non-planar sign, the sign area shall be calculated as 50 percent of the sum of the areas using only the four vertical sides of the smallest four-sided polyhedron that will encompass the sign structure.
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B. SIGN HEIGHT. Sign height is defined and shall be measured as follows.
1. The height of a freestanding monument sign located within 30 feet of an adjacent street right-of-way shall be measured as the vertical distance from the top of the highest element of the sign structure to the top of the curb or crown of the adjacent roadway where no curb exists. Any monument base or other structure erected to support or enhance the sign shall be measured as part of the sign height.
2. The height of all other freestanding monument signs or ground-mounted signs, not located within 30 feet of an adjacent street right of way, shall be measured as the vertical distance from the top of the highest element of the sign structure to the adjacent grade.
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3. A maximum of two feet of additional height may be added to a freestanding monument sign to provide for the provision of architectural embellishments.
4. The height of a wall sign shall be measured as the vertical distance from the base of the wall on which the sign is located to the top of the sign structure.
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