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10.73(5) — 10.74(1) • (5) To qualify as a construction sign, a sign services available on the property on which the shall identify the project and may include the signs are located or to present public service names of the contractors, engineers or architect, information. Electronic signs may not display a or products being used in the construction of a message for less than one-half of a second and building but only during the time that construction may not repeat a message at intervals of less or development is actively under way. The sign than 2 seconds. A traveling message may not shall be removed within 30 days of the travel slower than 16 light columns per second completion of the project. nor faster than 32 light columns per second. (6) The total sign copy area of all on-premise . (16) Farm signs are limited to on-premise signs signs related to a business shall not exceed the identifying a farm by its name or by the farmer's maximum permitted sign copy area. Sign copy name and may contain additional historical area shall be measured in the following manner: information such as date of founding or century The copy area of signs which have a face, farm designation or name or logo of the sign border or trim shall consist of the entire surface sponsor. area of the sign on which copy could be placed. ' (17) Flashing or rotating lights on signs are not Copy area of a sign whose message is applied permitted. to a background which provides no face, border (18) . A garage sale sign may be displayed 7 or trim shall be the area of the smallest rectangle days prior to the date of the sale and must be which can encompass all words, letters, figures, removed no later than the day following the emblems and other elements of the sign event. The sign must be located on the message. See sub. (10)for sample diagrams. premises of the garage sale. (7) Copy area for appendage signs shall be (19) Graphic signs are not permitted. • measured as provided in sub. (6) above. The (20) Logos may contain only the emblem or square foot total of all appendage sign copy name of the business located on the same areas shall be included with the sign copy area property or, on farm and crop signs, the name or of the primary sign to provide the overall copy emblem of the business sponsoring the signs. area of the sign. Logos may not be larger than 25% of the sign (8) The supporting structure or bracing of a copy area and shall be included within said copy sign shall not be counted as a part of sign copy area. area unless such structure or bracing is made a (21) Except for time and temperature signs and part of the sign's message. electronic signs, no fluttering, undulating, (9) The copy area of back-to-back on-premise rotating, or other moving signs shall be ground or pylon signs shall be computed using permitted. the copy area of only one side. The side used (22) Plantings or structures that exceed 30 shall,be the larger of the two sides. inches in height are prohibited beneath ground • (10) The following illustrations demonstrate and pylon signs. how sign copy area shall be determined. (23) Sign trim is permitted on all signs and may be installed around the outside of the sign copy • area. The square foot area of the trim shall not See Appendix be greater than 25% of the permitted copy area page 10-102 of the sign. (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. &rect.., 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'building or complex. 10.74 ' SPECIFIC REGULATIONS FOR (13) Distance measurements shall be VARIOUS TYPES OF SIGNS. Signs of various. measured along the pertinent right-of-way lines types shall be installed according to the when determining separation between signs or regulations set forth below: distance from intersections. (14) Double deck signs are not permitted. (1) Agriculture signs shall have a maximum size (15) Electronic signs may be used only to of 32 square feet and be erected to a height not advertise activities conducted or goods and to exceed 8 feet. Such signs shall be located not Page 10-52 - • . • rev. 103101 •