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10.73(3) — 10.74 etc., and may not include any other information (14) Double deck signs are not permitted. regarding product lines. The logo or name of the (15) Electronic signs may be used only to related business may be included. advertise activities conducted or goods and (4) Awning signs are subject to wall sign services available on the property on which the regulations. signs are located or to present public service (5) To qualify as a construction sign, a sign information. Electronic signs may not display a shall identify the project and may include the message for less than one-half of a second and names of the contractors, engineers or architect, may not repeat a message at intervals of less or products being used in the construction of a than 2 seconds. A traveling message may not building but only during the time that construction travel slower than 16 light columns per second or development is actively under way. The sign nor faster than 32 light columns per second. shall be removed within 30 days of the (16) Farm signs are limited to on-premise signs completion of the project. identifying a farm by its name or by the farmer's (6) The total sign copy area of all on-premise name and may contain additional historical signs related to a business shall not exceed the information such as date of founding or century maximum permitted sign copy area. Sign copy farm designation or name or logo of the sign area shall be measured in the following manner: sponsor. The copy area of signs which have a face, (17) Flashing or rotating lights on signs are not border or trim shall consist of the entire surface permitted. area of the sign on which copy could be placed. (18) A garage sale sign may be displayed 7 Copy area of a sign whose message is applied days prior to the date of the sale and must be to a background which provides no face, border removed no later than the day following the or trim shall be the area of the smallest rectangle event. The sign must be located on the which can encompass all words, letters, figures, premises of the garage sale. emblems and other elements of the sign (19) Graphic signs are not permitted. message. See sub. (10) for sample diagrams. (20) Logos may contain only the emblem or (7) Copy area for appendage signs shall be name of the business located on the same measured as provided in sub. (6) above. The property or, on farm and crop signs, the name or square foot total of all appendage sign copy emblem of the business sponsoring the signs. areas shall be included with the sign copy area Logos may not be larger than 25% of the sign of the primary sign to provide the overall copy copy area and shall be included within said copy area of the sign. area. (8) The supporting structure or bracing of a (21) Except for time and temperature signs and sign shall not be counted as a part of sign copy electronic signs, no fluttering, undulating, area unless such structure or bracing is made a rotating, or other moving signs shall be part of the sign's message. permitted. (9) The copy area of back-to-back on-premise (22) Plantings or structures that exceed 30 ground or pylon signs shall be computed using inches in height are prohibited beneath ground the copy area of only one side. The side used and pylon signs. shall be the larger of the two sides. (23) Sign trim is permitted on all signs and may (10) The following illustrations demonstrate be installed around the outside of the sign copy how sign copy area shall be determined. area. The square foot area of the trim shall not be greater than 25% of the permitted copy area See Appendix of the sign. page 10-102 (24) No sign, temporary or otherwise, shall be affixed to a tree or utility pole, fence or fence (11) Crop signs are permitted only while the pole, or be painted on a stone. crop is being grown and for no more than 30 (25) Private property protection signs are not days after harvest. regulated by this section. (12) Directional signs are not permitted in [History: 10.73 rep. &recr., Sub. 2 to OA 6, 1989-90, pub. residential districts except for use by an 09/21/90;(25)cr.,OA 24, 1998-99,pub.04/21/99.] apartment budding or complex. 10.74 SPECIFIC REGULATIONS FOR (13) Distance measurements shall be measured along the pertinent right-of-way lines VARIOUS TYPES OF SIGNS. Signs of various when determining separation between signs or types shall be installed according to the distance from intersections. regulations set forth below: Page 10-55 rev. 093008